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(FIG. I.) 

 DRY-FARMING IN BECHUANALAND. 



The failure of the maize crop during the last prolonged drought was largely 

 due to poor, shallow ploughing. In this picture the evaporation of soil 

 moisture is enormous, because the harrow has not followed the plough. 



(fig. 2.) 



A SCIENTIST WITH A RECORD " BEAT." 



The breakdown of Professor Beattie at Kuruman. Professor Beattie, of 



the South African College, is the chief of the Magnetic Survey. His "beat" 



extends from Capetown to Gondokora on the Nile. 



