394 DRY-FARMING 
district that receives between thirteen and twenty 
inches. The rain comes in the summer, making the 
conditions similar to those of the Great Plains. The 
success of dry-farming has already been practically 
demonstrated. The question before the Transvaal 
farmers is the determination of the best application 
of water conserving methods under the prevailing 
conditions. Under proper leadership the Transvaal 
and other portions of Africa will probably join the 
ranks of the larger dry-farming countries of the world. 
Russia 
More than one fourth of the whole of Russia is so 
dry as to be reclaimable only by dry-farming. The 
arid area of southern European Russia has a climate 
very much like that of the Great Plains. Turkestan 
and middle Asiatic Russia have a climate more like 
that of the Great Basin. In a great number of lo- 
calities in both European and Asiatic Russia dry- 
farming has been practiced for a number of years. 
The methods employed have not been of the most 
refined kind, due, possibly, to the condition of the 
people constituting the farming class. The govern- 
ment is now becoming interested in the matter and 
there is no doubt that dry-farming will also be prac- 
ticed on a very large scale in Russia. — 
