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‘began in Utah in 1901, the subject has been a lead- 
ing one in the Station and the College. A large num- 
ber of men trained at the Utah Station and College 
have gone out as investigators of dry-farming under 
state and Federal direction. 
The other experiment stations in the arid and semi- 
arid region were not slow to take up the work for 
their respective states. Fortier and Linfield, who 
had spent a number of years in Utah and had become 
somewhat familiar with the dry-farm practices of 
that state, initiated dry-farm investigations in 
Montana, which have been prosecuted with great 
vigor since that time. Vernon, under the direction 
of Foster, who had spent four years in Utah as 
Director of the Utah Station, initiated the work in 
New Mexico. In Wyoming the experimental study 
of dry-farm lands began by the private enterprise 
of H. B. Henderson and his associates. Later 
V. T. Cooke was placed in charge of the work under 
state auspices, and the demonstration of the feasi- 
bility of dry-farming in Wyoming has been going on 
since about 1907. Idaho has also recently under- 
taken dry-farm investigations. Nevada, once looked 
upon as the only state in the Union incapable of 
producing crops without irrigation, is demonstrating 
by means of state appropriations that large areas 
there are suitable for dry-farming. In Arizona, 
small tracts in this sun-baked state are shown to 
be suitable for dry-farm lands. The Washington 
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