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As soon as the roads were passible, Dorian drove up to his dry-farm. On one of these first trips he fell in with a company of his neighboring dry-farmers, and they traveled together. While they were stopping for noon at a small hotel in the canyon, a rain storm came up, which delayed them.
But lemme tell you boys something and I want you to remember it: You don't want to git the idea in your heads you're going to have any snap; you ain't. If I know B from a bull's foot, you've got your work cut out for yuh. I've been keeping cases pretty close on this dry-farm craze, and this stampede for claims. Folks are land crazy.
This dry-farm business had something to do with it, if you ask me." "Gee whiz! And here we've been calling Andy a liar," sighed Cal Emmett. "Aw, jest because he happened to tell the truth once, don't cut no ice," Happy Jack maintained with sufficient ambiguity to avert the natural consequences. "Of course, it won't be any gold-mine," Chip added dispassionately.
The farm at Greenstreet would have to be let to others, but he thought he could manage the dry-farm, as most of the work came in vacation season. Mrs. Trent did not want to leave her home in the country; but she would likely become lonesome living all by herself; so there would always be a room for her with Dorian and Carlia in the little house they would rent near the school.
1912. $4,000, agriculture and soil-culture experiments. 1913. $4,000, experiments along lines of agriculture and soil culture. 5,000, purchase and maintenance of experimental farm. 1914-15. $5,000, dry-farm experiments. And nearly every State availed itself by specific act of certain appropriations under a federal grant.
Instead they followed eagerly the trail Chip's cigarette-yellowed finger took across the map, and they listened intently to what he said about that trail. The clause about grazing the land, he said, simplified matters a whole lot. It was a cinch you couldn't turn loose and dry-farm that land and have even a fair chance of reaping a harvest.
Spring came early that year, and Dorian was glad of it, for he was eager to be out in the growing world and turn that growth to productiveness. When the warm weather came for good, books were laid aside, though not forgotten. From daylight until dark, he was busy. The home farm was well planted, the dry-farm wheat was growing beautifully.
That goodnight's kiss should have brought Dorian back to Carlia sooner than it did; but it was nearly a month before he saw her again. The fact that it was the busiest time of the year was surely no adequate excuse for this neglect. Harvest was on again, and the dry-farm called for much of his attention.
They say that folks can dry-farm the benches up toward the mountains they can't, and I don't like to see nobody try it. I'm a cowman and I don't like to see the range used for nothing else. But what am I going to do?" "Well, what are you going to do, Colonel?" says I. "I know what you'll do, but I'll just ast you."
Or, play you was aimin' to dry-farm. You shape up your rig to suit yourself but play up to it." "I'll hay it," said Carr. "All right hay it, by all means. Take your first load of water out about twenty-five miles and leave it using as little as you can to camp on. You'll have to have three full sets of chains and whiffletrees for your six-horse team, of course.
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