Dry land farming in the Southwest .. drylandfarmingin00cott Year: 1915 38 DRY LAND FARMING IN THE SOUTHWEST On that upland farm, once abandoned and where 'nobody could make a living,' my father furnished a good home and a comfortable living. Every one of his nine children were graduated from the Kan- sas Agricultural College, their expenses paid from the income from that farm. For nine years I had charge of the field and feeding work of the Kansas Experi- ment Station, making a specialty of rais- ing drought resisting crops and feeding them to get the greatest returns in meat and milk. Durin
Dry land farming in the Southwest .. drylandfarmingin00cott Year: 1915 38 DRY LAND FARMING IN THE SOUTHWEST On that upland farm, once abandoned and where 'nobody could make a living,' my father furnished a good home and a comfortable living. Every one of his nine children were graduated from the Kan- sas Agricultural College, their expenses paid from the income from that farm. For nine years I had charge of the field and feeding work of the Kansas Experi- ment Station, making a specialty of rais- ing drought resisting crops and feeding them to get the greatest returns in meat and milk. During that time I visited thousands of dry land farms in Kansas, studying their owners' methods and the successes and failures. For four years I had charge of the Farmers' Institute of the Colorado Agricultural College and spent much time every year with the dry land farmers. Since becoming agricul- turist of the Rock Island Lines, I have had the opportunity to meet hundreds of successful as well as unsuccessful dry land farmers in Colorado, Kansas, Okla- homa, Texas and New Mexico and watch their work. In all these years and in every place in the large area that I have studied, the dairy farmer who intelligently selected and fed the right kind of cows and whose chief crops were drought resisting feed crops, has succeeded. The man who de- pended upon grain has failed. Most of the dry land country of the Southwest has been settled and depopulated four times—the grain growers rushing in by thousands in wet years and dragging out 'broke' in dry years. Every one of these periods has left an increase in the farm population because the men who raised live stock and not grain alone made mon- ey every year, wet or dry, and they stayed. With this personal experience and these years of observation of dry farming in five states I know that the average 320- acre tract in the dry farming districts served by the Rock Island Lines is suf- ficient, when managed rightly as a dairy farm, to make a
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