Dry land farming in the Southwest .. drylandfarmingin00cott Year: 1915 DRY LAND FARMING IN THE SOUTHWEST The twenty acres for hay should be sown to winter rye, sorghum or millet, as the rainfall and farm work make advisable. Five acres may be sown to sweet clover and it is probable that the amount will be increased after the farmer learns how to raise and feed the crop. The forty acres for small grain should be sown only in seasons when the soil is in such condition as to force rapid growth after seeding. In other years this land may be summer fallowed by list- ing and planted to cultivated
Dry land farming in the Southwest .. drylandfarmingin00cott Year: 1915 DRY LAND FARMING IN THE SOUTHWEST The twenty acres for hay should be sown to winter rye, sorghum or millet, as the rainfall and farm work make advisable. Five acres may be sown to sweet clover and it is probable that the amount will be increased after the farmer learns how to raise and feed the crop. The forty acres for small grain should be sown only in seasons when the soil is in such condition as to force rapid growth after seeding. In other years this land may be summer fallowed by list- ing and planted to cultivated crops the following spring. One acre of the five selected for home grounds should be used for a garden and irrigated from the windmill. This acre will supply more vege- tables, berries, rhubarb and asparagus than a large family can use through the year. The new settler on the dry land farm will have to sow rye, winter wheat, rape and sorghum for his hog pasture until he can get sweet clover or alfalfa established. Ten acres, in an ordinary year, is sufficient to pasture five brood sows and their pigs. On most 160-acre tracts there is a small ravine or some rough land and this can be included in the twenty-five acres reserved especially for win- ter pasture. To utilize the crops from a 320-acre farm in the dry land district, one well managed according to this plan, there will be required twenty good dairy cows, five brood sows and 100 or more hens. Choice cows, well fed, will return $75 a cow yearly from the sale of cream; good grade cows, $50 each a year, and poor ones, $25 each. Twenty good grade cows properly selected will return to their owner $1,000 a year, besides the skim milk and the butter, cream and milk used by a large family. With ordinary care, thirty pigs can be raised to marketable age from five good brood sows. The farmer can take five for his own use and sell twenty-five. At a fair price these will sell for $300. The last two years they would have brought $375 t
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