CHAPTER XI 



THE PRINCIPLES OF LAND SETTLEMENT 



AT the Dry-Farming Congress, which 

 xjL was recently held in the Transvaal, 

 a speaker well remarked that the fun- 

 damental principles of irrigation were 

 precisely the same as the fundamental 

 principles of dry-farming, so far at least 

 as the tillage of the soil for the conserva- 

 tion of the maximum amount of water 

 was concerned. But still more remark- 

 able is the fact that the goal to which the 

 irrigation engineer is ever pressing for- 

 ward is the same as that which the dry- 

 land expert must ever keep in view, 

 namely, land settlement. 



In this chapter I intend to speak of 

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