. Dry-farming; . Fig. 96. The last of the breast plows. Modern machinery has made dry-farming possible. speak at length of the wonderful irrigation systems, but refer to other forms of agriculture in a most casual manner. While the absence of agricultural machinery makes it very doubtful whether dry- farming was practiced extensively in olden days, yet there can be little doubt of the high antiquity of the practice. Kearney quotes Tunis as an example the pos- sible extent of dry-farming in early historical days. Tunis is under an average rainfall of about nine inches, and there are no evid
. Dry-farming; . Fig. 96. The last of the breast plows. Modern machinery has made dry-farming possible. speak at length of the wonderful irrigation systems, but refer to other forms of agriculture in a most casual manner. While the absence of agricultural machinery makes it very doubtful whether dry- farming was practiced extensively in olden days, yet there can be little doubt of the high antiquity of the practice. Kearney quotes Tunis as an example the pos- sible extent of dry-farming in early historical days. Tunis is under an average rainfall of about nine inches, and there are no evidences of irrigation having been practiced there, yet at El Djem are the ruins
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