A Rainless Wheat 



may be so ; but the remedy is at hand. On 

 worn-out fallows you can always grow green 

 legumes, fill the soil with nitrogen, and so 

 gradually establish a humus bank. These two 

 savings banks — the Moisture Bank and the 

 Humus Bank — will secure the farmer against 

 the severest drought and make possible a 

 permanent fertility on the dry lands of South 

 Africa. 



The Year of Drought 



The prospect of a year of drought is the 

 favourite topic of conversation for those luke- 

 warm Laodiceans who, by idle criticism, vainly 

 try to check the progress of dry-farming. 

 Drought to the intelligent dry farmer is no more 

 than a passing storm to the skilful mariner at 

 sea. Before us lie two authentic records of 

 farms where the year of drought brings no 

 dismay. These records are taken from the 

 admirable work on dry-farming of the most 

 eminent American authority, Dr John H. 

 Widtsoe of Utah. The first farm belongs to 

 Senator Barnes of Utah, and is situated in the 

 Salt Lake Valley. The climate is semi-arid, 

 the summers are dry, and the evaporation large. 



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