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attribute this merely to the fact that "the soil is broken 

 up," unless it is intended by that phrase to include a good 

 deal more, and to convey the idea that not only is the soil 

 broken up, but that the farmers have been intelligently 

 applying improved methods of cultivation with special 

 view to meeting the adverse conditions which they find 

 all about them. With this modification the hint of explan- 

 ation, which may not be exactly as Prof. Moore himself 

 would put it, is all right. 



That the semi-arid regions are better prepared now to 

 fight the drouth and to stand independent of the varying 

 fortunes of the weather, is certainly true. Yet much 

 more can and must be done in the way of spreading the 

 knowledge among the new farmers of the new west. 



