DRY-FARMING 



these people [farmers] are so mucH at- 

 tracted to their old customs that they are 

 not only averse to alter them themselves, 

 but are moreover industrious to prevent 

 others from succeeding, who attempt to 

 introduce anything new." And again: 

 "The Hoe-Plough has been complained 

 of as cumbersome and unwieldy to the 

 horse and ploughman." With Tull we 

 see the beginning of modern farm ma- 

 chinery; and as Professor Bailey re- 

 marks: "Every commonwealth might 

 well raise a monument to the memory of 

 Jethro Tull." He died in the year 1740. 



Dry-Farming in the United States. 



In the United States, the history of 

 dry-farming may be said to date back 

 to 1849, the year of the gold discovery in 

 California. At that time men crossed 

 from the Eastern States, passed over the 

 deserts, and settled along the Pacific 

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