western plains and the Pacific slope, hoping that 

 it will help them to solve the great problems of 

 western agriculture, help to make dry farming 

 profitable and permanent and thus establish the 

 homes and happiness of those splendid men and 

 women of the great west. 



A. M. TEN EYCK, 

 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 

 Jan. 1, 1914 



