Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — "Dry Farming” Needed Everywhere. [ARTICLE]

"Dry Farming” Needed Everywhere.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] Wfepn we say “dry farming” we immediately begin to think of the western plains where the rainfall is deficient. We all admit that they should take unusual pains in conserving their moisture. Well we ought to be ashamed of ourselves in the humid territory. When comes along a year like this, we think we are terribly abused and vet in any of this territory we have had more rain than Western Kansas and Nebraska gets any year. Therefore, let us take dry farming methods to ourselves.. Because in some years the rain comes when wo want it, is no excuse for neglecting conservation of moisture. ■What is this dry farming? Let us take it up with the clubs and make it an institute subject. Let us get our best farmers to agree to practice it. There is no drought year in the corn belt which does not have more moist-' ure than necessary, if conserved, to raise a crop of com.