Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1910 — Joe Jackson Compares Dry and Irrigated Farming In Colorado. [ARTICLE]

Joe Jackson Compares Dry and Irrigated Farming In Colorado.

# Joe Jackson writes from Longmont, .Colo., stating that he is forced to laugh every time he sees a note in the paper about the bad rainy weather we have been having. -.Possibly the paper has overestimated the bad effect of the rains, for, aside from keeping the corn green and preventing the sowing of wheat they have caused no damage and to offset these disadvantages is the fact that we have the best crop of fall pasturage ever seen here. The weather has been tine, too, and hnusually warm. Joe estimates that during the year he has been in Longmont there have not been a dozen cloudy days. The days are warm but the nights cool and refreshing. This was an off year for crops there, especially -the dry land crops, although Joe states that .he considers them good himself, and states that some wheat made 50 and 60 bushels to the acre and a small piece of 11 acres made 80 bushels to the acre. Dry land can be bought for $12.50 and sls per acre that raised from 5 to 20 bushels of wheat this year and Joe says that when people there learn to farm rigM they will never have a failure. He criticises their plowing, stating that they only plow 3 inches deep, but when they plow 8 and 10 inches deep, they get a good crop the next year. Lots of farmers drilled wheat on stubble and raised nothing, but where the ground was plowed six months before and the ground put in shape in August and the wheat sowed in August it has been known to produce 40 bushels to the acre. Joe thinks that moie money can be made dry farming on sls land than by irrigation on S2OO land. Joe says he is not in the land business but he would like to have some of his friends come out there and look at the land that is on the market at sls per acre. He refers to his broken arm and says it is a little weak but he thinks it will eventually be as strong as ever.