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ARID AGRICULTURE. 



GRAIN 

 FARMING 



be used for feed without threshing should be har- 

 vested when in the stiff dough. This prevents, 

 in a measure, re-seeding the ground through the 

 grain shattering out, for in this country practi- 

 cally all the ripe grain which drops on the ground 

 in the fall comes up the next spring as a volun- 



Plate VIII. Dr. V. T. Cooke and the Beardless Feeding 

 Barley. Raised by Dry Farming 1908. 



teer crop. If the grain can be fed without 

 threshing it is marketed in the best possible way 

 from the farm and saves the cost of threshing 

 and handling. 



Pure grain farming is not the best type of 

 permanent agriculture. On suitable soils, how- 



