THE FOREIGN STATUS OF DRY-FARMING 393 
Australia 
Australia, larger than the continental United 
States, is vitally interested in dry-farming, for one 
third of its vast area is under a rainfall of less than 
ten inches, and another third is under a rainfall of 
between ten and twenty inches. Two thirds of the 
area of Australia, if reclaimed at all, must be re- 
claimed by dry-farming. The realization of this 
condition has led several Australians to visit the 
United States for the purpose of learning the methods 
employed in dry-farming. The reports on dry- 
farming in America by Surveyor-General Straw- 
bridge and Senator J. H. McColl have done much to 
initiate a vigorous propaganda in behalf of dry- 
farming in Australia. Investigation has shown that 
occasional farmers are found in Australia, as in 
America, who have discovered for themselves many 
of the methods of dry-farming and have succeeded in 
producing crops profitably. Undoubtedly, in time, 
Australia will be one of the great dry-farming coun- 
tries of the world. 
Africa 
Up to the present, South Africa only has taken an 
active interest in the dry-farm movement, due to the 
enthusiastic labors of Dr. William Macdonald of the 
Transvaal. The Transvaal has an average annual 
precipitation of twenty-three inches, with a large 
