DRY-FARMING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 7

DRY-FARMING.

: ' : '-. '■ 'r.- -..'- . ' 9 - : '~. -;..':'- ■":'■'' ''■■': AMERICA'S CONQUEST OF HER ' '': : : ,v:; DESERTS.. y: :^M^: By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrieht. ','• (Reo. October■ 5, 0.5 a.m.): ■ ' ; New Yorki October 4. ' The President, Mr. .Taft, by pressing, 'a button at his ..Massachusetts-sum-mer, home; at ■ Beverly, gave; the signal; at Spokane, in the far '..West,' for .the■ formal opening of the.Dry-farming-:Con-, grass;':' ;.-',' ■• ..' ~ .J-; .....: ■'The President, in his message/ said ■he hoped .that plans would be developed in; aid of .the semi : arid districts of the. .West,','.:.":." .--.': ,: : -..;,- : ";-:v':;:'

■ Mr. 'Roosevelt, stated ithat the conquest of the-dead West was:-the most, notable of,' American ■.':

; In. simple phrase' dry-farming means' a method of farming that, shall include deep ploughing and frequent. pulverising of the top soil but ;Of;as . well, as"- during the growing season. v;It; is based on -..tho principle that?:the ';moisture, falling Vinj rain '. snow. may. sink, into' the' earth if the- soil be,.'loosened.:::Then : that,. there' shall, be-kept-above: that moistened-ted'a close;. fine blanket of dust that :sholl" pre-' .vent evaporation.' If the vfurrows-', be. turned at right: angles to'., the .-prevailing winds '.'of.'", winter-' that the-'snow may": be caught, and if the pulverising .harrow be sent over the rfield.. after' every ; rain,;, the seed, is: certain to-' receive.':a, \ maximum' amoUnt.of,sustenance..::.lf it;does:not get "enough;in.one.season.it; : may in fwb, ; and acrop every alternate. y'ear,:ifa,;gobd one,, is ample return on cheap land;';' Of/course' thore mu'st ; 'be good soil as a'.basis.-ronly. irrigation .can conquer sand. ,; .