DRY-FARMING 



ing does not pay ! The poor peasant has 

 secured a similar farm, barren to the last 

 degree, but he must work there till he is 

 old and worn out in order to make ends 

 meet. A third, maybe, has built his house 

 near to a malarial swamp, where his wife 

 and children sicken and die before his 

 very eyes. All three overlooked the fun- 

 damental principles of selection in their 

 choice of a farm. 



Selection of Farm: 



What, then, are the principles of selec- 

 tion? They are as follows : 



(1) Locality, (2) size, (3) soil, (4) 

 water, (5) climate, (6) crop. 



Now I see no reason why the prospec- 

 tive settler should not use a score-card in 

 judging land, just as he might often 

 wish to refer to a score-card in estimating 

 the points of a pedigree cow. That is to 

 say he should know the points of a good 

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