DRY-FARMING 



v. Soil Physics Laboratories. 



vi. Soil Bacteriological Laboratories. 



At the present moment the main prob- 

 lems in this division lie along the line of 

 soil management, cereal investigations, 

 plant breeding, soil moisture determina- 

 tion, meteorological and bacteriological 

 investigations. In passing it may be men- 

 tioned that there are 1058 persons in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, which shows 

 the remarkable growth of a single section 

 of the Department of Agriculture. 

 There is no doubt that the Department 

 is doing much to demonstrate the best 

 methods of tillage, the necessity of or- 

 ganization, and the production of one 

 uniform type of grain. 



The work of the Department in dry- 

 farming may be said to have begun with 

 the appointment of Mr. E. C. Chilcott as 

 Agriculturist in charge of Dry-Land In- 

 vestigations in July, 1905. Before com- 

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