DRY-FARMING 



Sorghums has done much to make 

 farming in this region much less preca- 

 rious and uncertain than formerly. In a 

 word, the shiftless and improvident 

 methods of the past are giving way to a 

 new era of better and more scientific 

 farming. 



THE GREAT BASIN 



THE agricultural region known as the 

 Great Basin is a vast tract of country 

 lying between the Rocky Mountains and 

 the Sierra Nevada. It comprises a large 

 and irregular body of land lying chiefly 

 in the States of Utah, Nevada, Oregon 

 and California, where the rivers finding 

 no outlet to the ocean flow into various 

 lakes and sinks. 1 The Great Salt Lake 

 of Utah is the most famous body of water 



1 A sink is a body of water originally fresh, without an 

 outlet, becoming salt through evaporation. 



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