. Western live-stock management . Livestock; Range management. 24 Western Live-stock Management acreage, alfalfa is by far the biggest crop. The dry-farm sections are farmed under the dry-farm system, which is essentially summer fallow and careful tillage adapted to using two years' moisture for the growing of one crop. These lands are largely on the rolling hills which have a good soil and an annual rainfall of twelve to twenty inches. The largest dry-farm areas are found in the. Fig. 4. eastern parts of Montana, in the Columbia Basin in eastern Oregon and Washington, and in the central val-
. Western live-stock management . Livestock; Range management. 24 Western Live-stock Management acreage, alfalfa is by far the biggest crop. The dry-farm sections are farmed under the dry-farm system, which is essentially summer fallow and careful tillage adapted to using two years' moisture for the growing of one crop. These lands are largely on the rolling hills which have a good soil and an annual rainfall of twelve to twenty inches. The largest dry-farm areas are found in the. Fig. 4. eastern parts of Montana, in the Columbia Basin in eastern Oregon and Washington, and in the central val- leys of California. The big crop in the large dry-farm areas, and in fact very commonly the exclusive crop, is wheat. In some places rye is grown as a hay or forage crop, and farther south the sorghums, milo maize and similar drouth-resistant plants are grown as a feed for stock. These areas, however, must be considered very largely as wheat-growing districts and they produce live- stock only on a limited scale, with the exception of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Potter, E. L. (Ermine Lawrence), 1884-; Kennedy, Carl N; Samson, George Roy; Nelson, Oran Milton. New York : Macmillan Company
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