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your state and locate the territory where each may be 

 profitably produced. 



4. Write a description of how some of the important 

 dry-farm crops are produced, from the plowing of the land 

 to the harvesting and marketing of the crop. 



5. Write a brief history of dry-farming in the United 

 States. 



6. Give an account of dry- farming in your own state ; 

 in Canada ; in Mexico ; in Brazil ; in Russia ; in China. 



7. What is the average annual rainfall for your state? 

 How does this compare with other states of your region? 

 With the United States? Does the rainfall of your state 

 come chiefly during the growing season, or during the fall 

 and winter? What bearing has this on the methods of 

 farming required? 



8. Make a list of all crops, such as cereal, forage, 

 garden and orchard, that will thrive in your state. Compare 

 with crops available to middle western or eastern states. 

 Do the same for animals. 



5. Demonstrations in Dry-Farming 



1. Demonstrate by use of sand, soil and water what 

 is meant by arid, humid and sub-humid land. 



2. Show how to make soil mulch for the arid land 

 found in the vicinity of your school. Use soil on table or 

 in boxes ; if this is impracticable demonstrate to the class 

 in the out-of-doors. 



3. Show upon the map or by the use of the blackboard 

 the reasons for lack of rainfall in certain areas in your 

 section of the state. 



4. By the use of boxes and various types of soil make 

 demonstrations on a miniature scale of farming some one 

 crop such as wheat under the three conditions, arid, semi- 

 arid and humid, by the application of moisture, packing, 

 cultivation, stirring of the soil. Plant the same seed in each 

 of the three divisions. You will be able to show the dif- 



