CHAPTER X 



DRY-LAND EXPERIMENTS 



IN the first chapter of this volume the 

 work of the State experiment sta- 

 tions has been noted and now it may be 

 of interest to touch upon the practical 

 aid and encouragement rendered to the 

 dry-farmer by the Department of Agri- 

 culture at Washington. The operations 

 and experiments of the Department in 

 dry-land agriculture come under the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry and comprise 

 the following sections: 



i. Office Dry-Land Agriculture, 

 ii. Office of Grain Investigations, 

 in. Office of Western Agricultural 



Extension. 



iv. Office of Alkali and Drought-Re- 

 sistant Plant Breeding. 

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