A DROUTH-RESISTING FARM 407 
Plains area. According to Alway, the country is in 
ppearance very much like western Nebraska and 
ansas; the climate is distinctly arid, and the pre- 
cipitation comes mainly in the spring and summer. 
It is the only experimental dry-farm in the Great 
Plains area with records that go back before the dry 
years of the early ’90’s. In 1882 the soil of this farm 
was broken, and it wasfarmed continuously until 1888, 
