THE NEW EARTH 



Thus, this second element in reclamation is 

 seen to be of large importance, for it has re- 

 sulted in the reclamation of land now worth 

 millions of dollars, in addition to the still 

 greater value, present and prospective, of the 

 crops which come from the orchards upon 

 these soils. 



Third in the list of factors which have come 

 into play since the beginning of the New 

 Earth for the aid of man in the saving of these 

 waste places is arid farming, now under full 

 swing in the state of Utah, as well as under 

 careful test in other states having arid regions. 

 Briefly, by this is meant farming without 

 water, or with so small a portion as to make it 

 almost a negligible quantity, together with the 

 adaptation of certain crops to these soils, — crops 

 which, like the native desert plants, as the cac- 

 tus and the chaparral, will grow with the very 

 smallest appreciable portion of moisture. The 

 Experiment Station of Utah has taken up this 

 work and has pushed it to most satisfactory 

 ends. In Utah, there are eighty-two thousand 

 one hundred and ninety square miles of land, 

 and even when as much as ten thousand square 

 miles of this shall be suppUed with water, 



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