. Dry-farming; a system of agriculture for countries under a low rainfall. Dry farming. THE HISTOEY OF DKY-FARMING 371 of the population along their lines and for the pur- pose of assisting the settlers in the arid West con- siderable sums have been expended by the railroads in cooperation with the stations for the gathering of. ,4Mir 't*>i'^^^ Fig. 100. Using treadmill for threshing grain from small plants on one of the Utah experimental dry-farms. information of value in the reclamation of arid lands without irrigation. It is through the efforts of the experiment stations that the knowled
. Dry-farming; a system of agriculture for countries under a low rainfall. Dry farming. THE HISTOEY OF DKY-FARMING 371 of the population along their lines and for the pur- pose of assisting the settlers in the arid West con- siderable sums have been expended by the railroads in cooperation with the stations for the gathering of. ,4Mir 't*>i'^^^ Fig. 100. Using treadmill for threshing grain from small plants on one of the Utah experimental dry-farms. information of value in the reclamation of arid lands without irrigation. It is through the efforts of the experiment stations that the knowledge of the day has been reduced to a science of dry-farming. Every student of the sub- ject admits that much is yet to be learned before the last word has been said concerning the methods of dry-farming in reclaiming the wa-ste places of the earth. The future of dry-farming rests almost wholly upon the energy and intelligence with which. 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 Widtsoe, John Andreas, 1872-1952. New York, The Macmillan company
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