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distance. Its value is for graz- 

 ing purposes or dry farming. 

 The safe business proposition 

 seems to lie in the well-located 

 land where a reliable water sup- 

 ply has already been provided. 



I also took occasion during 

 this trip to view the results of 

 dry farming methods. This, in 

 brief, is a careful and thorough 

 system of cultivation intended 

 to get the best possible crops 

 without an artificial water sup- 

 ply. By deep plowing and thor- 

 ough harrowing the ground is 

 fitted for the seed and then 

 after planting it is rolled. For 

 one thing this is better tillage 

 than is usually given, and that 

 counts a great deal. The deep 

 plowing and the rolling tend to 

 conserve the moisture about the 

 roots of the crop. It is a cor- 

 rect principle and ought to be 

 applied everywhere. Neverthe- 

 less, it will not work the won- 

 ders that we see in the irri- 

 gated districts, where soil that 

 an eastern man would declare is 

 pounds; in 1880, 3,500,000; in 

 keep a sheep" is producing 

 magnificent crops. The dry 

 farming plan ought to prevail 

 wherever irrigation has not 

 been introduced. It would add 

 vastly to the sum total of our 

 agricultural products. 



It certainly seems to me 

 that farming is growing more 

 important every year, employ- 

 ing more people, attracting 

 much money and many college 

 bred men, and that it is the very 

 best industry the United States 

 has today or will ever have. The 

 man who engages in farming as 

 done by his father will generally 

 fail, but to engage in the most 

 stable business in this United 

 States with care, intelligence 

 and system, applying the busi- 

 ness methods usually employed 

 in other lines, I cannot see how 

 one can fail, especially in the ir- 

 rigated country. 



Cotton importation lias shown 

 a steady if not rapid growth, 

 especially during the last 20 

 years. Prior to the Civil War 

 the quantity imported seldom 

 reached more than 1,000,000 

 pounds per annum. During the 

 war the quantity imported was 

 quite large, ranging as high as 

 36,000,000 pounds in 1865, but 

 dropping to 6,000,000 pounds in 



1866, and less than 1,000,000 in 



1867. By 1870 the total impor- 

 tation of cotton was 1,670,000 

 pounds; in 1880, 3,500,000; in 

 1890, $8,500,000; in 1900, 67,000,- 

 000; in 1910, 86,000,000, and in 

 1911, 113,750,000 pounds. 



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