388 DRY-FARMING 
taken away by crops. There are millions of acres 
in the Great Basin yet to be taken up and subjected 
to the will of the dry-farmer. 
Colorado and Rio Grande River Basins 
The Colorado and Rio Grande River Basins include 
Arizona and the western part of New Mexico. The 
chief dry-farm crops of this dry district are wheat, 
corn, and beans. Other crops have also been grown 
in small quantities and with some success. The area 
suitable for dry-farming in this district has not yet 
been fully determined and, therefore, the Arizona and 
New Mexico stations are undertaking dry-farm sur- 
veys of their respective states. In spite of the fact 
that Arizona is generally looked upon as one of the 
driest states of the Union, dry-farming is making 
considerable headway there. In New Mexico, five 
sixths of all the homestead applications during the 
last year were for dry-farm lands; and, in fact, there 
are several prosperous communities in New Mexico 
which are subsisting almost wholly on dry-farming. 
It is only fair to say, however, that dry-farming is 
not yet well established in this district, but that the 
prospects are that the application of scientific prin- 
ciples will soon make it possible to produce profitable 
crops without irrigation in large parts of the Colorado 
and Rio Grande River Basins. 
