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ever, both with and without the summer-fallow 

 system, farmers have practiced grain farming on 

 the same soils for more than thirty years in parts 

 of the West and they have become thrifty and 

 even wealthy doing so. There is no doubt but 

 such soil robbery Mill result in depletion in time. 



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Plate IX. The Wyoming State Dry Farm Commission. 

 Coming TtirutlieRye — 1908. 



Photo by Johnston. 



but the extensive grain farmer gives little or no 

 thought to the building up of a productive farm 

 for future generations. He often expects his 

 children to enter the professions or move to some 

 other country for their livelihood. With the 

 practice of growing a single crop year after year. 



