. Dry land farming in the Southwest .. . A Dry Land Farm Home. Dry Land Farming in the Southwest By II. M. COTTRKLL. Agricultural Commissioner HOCK ) LINKS The Land Till! new settler in ;i dry land district in the Southwesl should have ;i Farm of 320 acres. IT he docs nut have sufficient capital to justify the purchase of 320 acres, lie should buy Kin iici-i's and arrange to lease 160 acres of un- broken land. On the 320-aere farm, 160 should he kepi in native grass to be used as n led lor a pasture either summer or winter. The aative grass has never been appreciated by the dry land farme
. Dry land farming in the Southwest .. . A Dry Land Farm Home. Dry Land Farming in the Southwest By II. M. COTTRKLL. Agricultural Commissioner HOCK ) LINKS The Land Till! new settler in ;i dry land district in the Southwesl should have ;i Farm of 320 acres. IT he docs nut have sufficient capital to justify the purchase of 320 acres, lie should buy Kin iici-i's and arrange to lease 160 acres of un- broken land. On the 320-aere farm, 160 should he kepi in native grass to be used as n led lor a pasture either summer or winter. The aative grass has never been appreciated by the dry land farmers. Nine out of every ten of them have a craze for plowing up all the land for which th'-\ ran secure title Ninety-nine drj land farmers out of every hundred have from two to ten times as much land under cultivation as they can handle thor- oughly. The result is failure after failure to raise good crops, while if such an acreage only as can he well worked is under cultivation, the yields will he good in mosl years. Many dry land farmers fail because they have 100 to 200 acres per man under cultivation when they have team power sufficienl for forty acres only. A 160-acre native grass pasture is one of the most certain assets of a 320-acre dry land farm. The native grasses have been thoroughly adapted to soil and climate by thousands of years of struggle, in which the fittest have survived. From four to eight acres will furnish feed for a cow through the summer and an equal acreage, not pastured in the summer, will supply a good share of the E I she needs in winter. In a long con- tinued drought the native grass gets short, hut always supplies some feed, and the deficiency can ide up by silage. An Iowa farmer came to eastern n the farm that lie boughl was a good Dative :_rrass pasture that had not been usee) during tin- summer. Cows on this pasture as their only feed returned an aver- age of $4 per month per cow. The reason that winter pasture on the dry farming lands is so valua
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