368 DRY-FARMING. 
Great Plains area. It does not propose or outline 
any system of reclamation. Several later publica- 
tions of the Colorado Station deal with the problems 
peculiar to the Great Plains. 
At the Utah Station the possible conquest of the 
sagebrush deserts of the Great Basin without irriga- 
tion was a topic of common conversation during the 
years 1894 and 1895. In 1896 plans were presented 
for experiments on the principles of dry-farming. 
Four years later these plans were carried into effect. 
In the summer of 1901, the author and L. A. Merrill 
investigated carefully the practices of the dry-farms 
of the state. On the basis of these observations and 
by the use of the established principles of the relation 
of water to soils and plants, a theory of dry-farming 
was worked out which was published in Bulletin 75 
of the Utah Station in January, 1902. This is prob- 
ably the first systematic presentation of the prin- 
ciples of dry-farming. A year later the Legislature 
of the state of Utah made provision for the establish- 
ment and maintenance of six experimental dry-farms 
to investigate in different parts of the state the pos- 
sibility of dry-farming and the principles under- 
lying the art. These stations, which are still main- 
tained, have done much to stimulate the growth of 
dry-farming in Utah. The credit of first under- 
taking and maintaining systematic experimental 
work in behalf of dry-farming should be assigned to 
the state of Utah. Since dry-farm experiments 
