DRY-FARMING 



more remote regions of the West within 

 the last few years. But how much still re- 

 mains to be done. Not until your State 

 is a network of lines — like the arteries 

 and capillaries of the circulatory system 

 — will your farmers be rich and pros- 

 perous. Farms are often bought merely 

 because they are cheap without any re- 

 gard to locality. Nothing could be more 

 foolish, because the purchaser has ig- 

 nored, at the very first, the most impor- 

 tant of the six principles of selection. 



Turn now to our second principle, 

 namely, size. There is a common saying 

 in Western America that a man who 

 owns more than half a section (320 acres) 

 is land poor, or, in other words, he has 

 more land than he can properly work. 

 Thus the term has come to mean thrift- 

 less improvident farming. Now suppose, 

 for example, that a farmer has secured a 

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