DRY-FARMING 



Rocky Mountains, on the east by the 

 ninety-eighth meridian, 1 and on the 

 south by the thirty-second parallel of 

 latitude. 2 



In the long-settled States of the East, 

 the agricultural industry has been placed 

 on a more or less stable basis; but in the 

 West many problems are still new and 

 unsolved. Writing on this subject, 

 Chilcott says: 



"It is therefore within the Great 

 Plains area that most of the great prob- 

 lems of dry-land agriculture must be 

 solved. It is here that experiments must 

 be carried on which shall determine what 

 are the best methods of agriculture for 

 the conservation of moisture, and the 

 maintenance of the fertility of the soil 



1 This line passes through the States of North and South 

 Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Panhandle 

 of Texas. 



2 The southern limit of the Staked Plains. South of this 

 line the country changes and slopes rapidly toward the 

 Gulf and the Rio Grande. 



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