APPENDIX A 



that Nebraska was worth settling. Soon a few said 

 that a good farmer could get a living in many a patch 

 as far out as a hundred miles from the river. Gradu- 

 ally the limit moved west. Down to a very recent 

 period, however, the hundredth meridian was regarded 

 as the certain terminus of arable land, most people, 

 even in Nebraska, supposing that the western part of 

 the state was doomed to perpetual aridity and fit for 

 naught but pasturage. The proved possibilities of dry 

 farming (see Chapter IV) have changed this. 



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