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(4) That thin seeding, for wheat 30 to 40 pounds per acre, 

 gives larger returns than more lavish sowing. This is due to the 

 fact that each individual plant has more moisture, sunlight and 

 food if given ample space. 



(5) That the durum wheats have given the best results. They 

 are the wheats which have extended the wheat-belt into the most 

 arid regions of Western America. 



(6) That the durum wheat — Apulia — has been grown under 

 our dry-farming system without a drop of rain falling upon it 

 from seed-time until harvest, which ;iroves the efficacy of the 

 moisture-saving fallow, and is a record in modern agriculture. 



A GERMAN TESTIMONY. 



A short time ago a fair-headed, blue-eyed \'iking was sent from 

 Berlin to Windhuk to grow two blades of grass where but one 

 grew before, in the person of Mr. Walter Richter, the Agricul- 

 tural Adviser to German Southwest Africa. He spent several 

 months in British South Africa investigating our soils and crops 

 with the skill, the patience, and the industry for which his race 

 is so justly renowned. To our question : "'What do you consider 

 the most instructive part of your tour?" Mr. Richter replied 

 without hesitation : "The Dryland Experiment Station at Lich- 

 tenburg. There I saw durum wheat being harvested which not 

 only had been grown on a poor shallow soil, but actually never 

 had a drop of rain upon it from seed-time until harvest. There, 

 also, I saw dry land which is never dry the whole year round. I 

 go back to German Southwest Africa filled with a new hope, for 

 now I am convinced that dry-farming is destined to revolutionize 

 our agricultural industry. Truly, as the motto of your Congress 

 puts it: "The destiny of South Africa is on the dry lands." 



Every great movement is indissolubly linked up with the per- 

 .sonality of a few earnest workers. So it is with dry-farming in 

 South Africa. The signal success which we have achieved is due 

 in large measure to Captain Heinrich du Toit. a brave Boer officer 

 of the former Staats Atillerie who bore a charmed life, as shown 

 by marks of twenty-two bullets. Captain du Toit returned to the 

 peaceful life of a Caj^e farmer. When the government dry-land 

 station was established he was appointed manager — a post which 

 he still holds. He has since become the tireless missionary of 

 the new agriculture amongst the Dutch and the English settlers 

 on the dry lands of the Union. 



MOISTCRE liANK AND TTUMIIS BANK. 



Hardly a season ])asscs but we hear of crops tlial liavc failed 

 because of lack of rain, and this complaint is not confined to any 

 particular dominion, but is more or less common to all iiarts of 

 the Emi)ire. Search the pages of the nn-al magazines, consult the 



