SUNSHINE FARMING 



conditions is some day to be the typical and 

 most successful of all agriculture. No over- 

 wet seasons or periods occur, such as in 

 humid areas destroy crops outright or ruin 

 their quality. Harvest weeks are sunny 

 enough for the work. Farming loses its 

 gambling aspect as much as manufacturing. 

 This feature will enable rural pursuits to 

 command and retain first-class talent to a 

 greater extent than is now the case. 



Critics maintain that dry culture is costly 

 expensive in human labor and in team 

 power. Friends admit this. It costs more 

 to farm as above described than it does to 

 farm in the usual way. But, friends add, 

 and I think them perfectly right, the extra 

 returns assured by the method outlined will 

 vastly more than pay for the extra expense. 



As a matter of fact nearly all the proce- 

 dure demanded by dry farming is desirable 

 and would be remunerative under plentiful 

 rainfall. There is, however, hardly a sec- 

 tion of our Union where the farmer can be 

 sure, any given season, of sufficient moisture 

 from above, whereas, if he has plenty in the 



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