. Dry land farming. Dry farming. [from old catalog]. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF DRY FARMING 29 now it is practised more or less in various areas in the state. In the Great Basin country with Nevada as a centre (see p. 52), are some areas where farming has been prac- tised for more than 40 years without the aid of water. The products grown incUide grain, chiefly wheat, corn, some of the sorghums and fruit. The rainfall in much of this area is very light, in some places as low or lower. RANCH HOME, YELLOWSTONE COUNTY, MONTANA. Courtesy Northern Pacific Railway Co. than 10 inches, hence the extens
. Dry land farming. Dry farming. [from old catalog]. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF DRY FARMING 29 now it is practised more or less in various areas in the state. In the Great Basin country with Nevada as a centre (see p. 52), are some areas where farming has been prac- tised for more than 40 years without the aid of water. The products grown incUide grain, chiefly wheat, corn, some of the sorghums and fruit. The rainfall in much of this area is very light, in some places as low or lower. RANCH HOME, YELLOWSTONE COUNTY, MONTANA. Courtesy Northern Pacific Railway Co. than 10 inches, hence the extension of dry farming has not been so rapid as in areas that are favored with greater precipitation. In the Great Plains area which drains from the Rocky Mountains into the Mississippi (see p. 50), dry farm crops have been grown with more or less success from the Canadian boundary to Texas, and in some locali-. 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 Shaw, Thomas, 1843- [from old catalog]. St. Paul, Minn. , The Pioneer company
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