DRY-LAND CROPS 



found in Russia and in Algeria, where 

 the macaroni wheats are grown. In 1901 

 Mr. Carleton wrote on page 16 of his 

 bulletin on Macaroni wheats: "The 

 normal yearly rainfall of the Great 

 Plains at the one-hundredth meridian, 

 where wheat-growing is at present prac- 

 tically non-existent on account of lack of 

 drought-resistant varieties, is nearly 

 three inches greater than that for the 

 entire semi-arid Volga region, which is 

 one of the principal wheat regions of 

 Russia, and which produces the finest 

 macaroni wheat in the world." 



At first these grains were received with 

 but little favor, in spite of the fact that 

 they gave excellent yields and showed re- 

 markable rust-resistant and drought-en- 

 during qualities. But the macaroni 

 factories of America were then using the 

 ordinary bread wheats, and neither the 

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