SUNSHINE FARMING 



fall, but can in low-rainfall areas dispense 

 with irrigation itself, that sub-humid farm- 

 ing is not shut up to irrigable valleys here 

 and there, or to windmill and gasoline lift- 

 ing from under ground, that holders of 

 semi-arid farms not irrigable are not con- 

 fronted alone by the alternatives of stock- 

 raising, travel or death, but have a chance 

 for life and prosperity as farmers right 

 there on those semi-arid farms not irrigable. 



The resources that promise and are be- 

 ginning to effect this deliverance are two: 

 the importation and the breeding of drouth- 

 defying seeds and crops, and water-hoard- 

 ing and water-holding methods of culture 

 for short, "dry culture." Hardy seeds and 

 grains will by themselves effect much: dry 

 culture by itself will. Both devices together 

 will turn wildernesses into gardens of 

 plenty. 



The discussion of the anti-drouth victo- 

 ries securable through the breeding of 

 hardy seeds and by planting rugged instead 

 of feeble crops it is not my purpose to take 

 up now. Suffice it to say that aridity can 



