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Seed, alfalfa, production 29, 80 



(inantity per acre, humid and semiarid regions 30-31 



wheat, quantity per acre, humid and semiarid regions 30-31 



Seeding, thin, essential in dry farming 30-31 



Semiarid, uonirrigated farm lands, Utah, area 13-14 



West, precipitation at representative points 17 



Soil, cubic foot, weight 25 



fertility, maintenance without rotation of cmiJS 31 



moisture, methodn of retaining 22-27 



relation to rainfall 26 



texture, relation to water-holding cai)acity 25 



Soils, dry-farmed, sustained productiveness, causes 31-35 



heavy, nonleaching, desiral)le for dry farming 32 



water-holding capacity 26 



Steam outfit for plowing compared with use of animals 23 



Straw, wheat, plowing under, effect on soil fertility, notes 31-34 



Subsoil plowing, dry farming 23 



Summer fallow, method in dry farming 24 



Tillage, crop, in dry farming 27-31 



interseason, methods 22-27 



value, lesson of dry farming 36 



Tooele, Utah, dry farming and location 19 



Topograi)hy, Great Basin 10 



Traction engine, use in dry farming 22 



Triticinn u'stmim, growing in dry farming 27 



durum, experiments in dry farming 27 



Utah, arid experiment farms 14 



crops and dry-farming prai-tices 12 



crops, areas, 1899 11 



dry farming, pioneer attempts 8,13 



lake region, dry farming 13 



law providing for arid experiment farms 14 



private experiments in dry farming 13 



Vegetables, area, Utah, 1899 11 



"Wasatch Mountains, dry farming 13 



"Water-holding capacity of soil, relation to soil texture 25 



"Weeds, growth in volunteer wheat 29 



"Wheatarea, Utah, 1899 11 



cultivation in dry farming 22 



seed, quantity to acre, humid and semiarid regions 3C^31 



straw, plowing under, effect on soil fertility, notes 31-34 



tillage, dry farming 28 



varieties, dry farming 27 



volunteer, disadvantages 28 



yield after fallow years 34 



Willows, occurrence. Great Basin area 11 



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