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^round-water resources in a manner to reap the benefits and avoid the 

 disasters incident to the use of any one of these alone. The stockman, 

 relying upon the grazing range alone, is subject to disaster by drought. 

 The dry-farmer, relying upon rainfall alone, will Ukewise often fail 

 through want of an adequate water supply. The pump irrigator alone 

 will fail because he cannot afford the cost of his pumped water supply ; 

 but upon the combined resources of the grazing range, the dry-farmer 

 and the irrigator, a scheme of agricuUure can be built up that combines 

 all of the advantages mentioned and avoids the disaster almost certainly 

 resulting from dependence upon any one of them alone. The grazing 

 range, for instance, with its rich burden of green feed during the 

 rainy season, supplements the dry- farmer's silo; and the water sup- 

 plied by the pump irrigator at times when water must be had to start 

 or save a crop, supplements the rainfall upon which the dry-farmer 

 must mainly rely. This cooperation between cheap range feed, dry- 

 farm forage supply available as silage, and pumped or stored water 

 supply used in time of need, together with a scheme of livestock 

 adapted to the best use of forage supplies, points the way towards the 

 utilization of hundreds of thousands of acres of lands in a region of 

 which it was formerly said that it could only be farmed by means of a 

 copious irrigating water supply. 



THE northern ARIZONA DRY-EARM 



Operations at the dry-farm near Snowflake, Arizona, were dis- 

 continued because of the great distance from supervision and the diffi- 

 culty, therefore, in securing satisfactory returns for the money ex- 

 pended upon the work. Continuation of dry-farming operations at a 

 third location in the State has not as yet bee-n decided although it is 

 recognized that an agricultural region of higher altitude and conse- 

 quently peculiar conditions exists between 5000 and 7000 feet elevation. 

 This region is distinguished by its short summer growing season and is 

 limited to such quick growing crops as early potatoes, oats, certain 

 varieties of corn, vegetables, and some of the deciduous fruits. 



REQUIREMENTS FOR FUTURE PROGRESS 



The physical properties of the several departments of the College of 

 Agriculture are at this time fairly complete and satisfactory, consisting 

 not only of office and laboratory facilities in the Agriculture Building 

 on the University Campus, together with adjacent gardens and the 

 University Farm, but also consisting of outlying cultivated tracts — the 



