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thereto and not a net drain. Bare fields are 

 also a prey to winds that carry away valua- 

 ble soil. Fallowing, therefore, is a doubt- 

 ful policy, except in the rare cases where 

 irrigation is impossible, and a single year's 

 rain by itself enables you to raise no paying 

 crop, while two years' rain will suffice for 

 this. In such localities fallowing might be 

 wise. It would mine the land and at last 

 ruin it; but, you would say, arid soil that 

 cannot be irrigated might as well be robbed 

 of its fertility and its top soil blown away 

 once for all, and agricultural hope for the 

 locality given up forever. 



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