DRY-FARMING 



handle of Texas in eighty-five days. This 

 is at an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 

 feet Avith an average rainfall of 22 

 inches. 



Rye. 



Rye, well known as a good dry-farm- 

 ing crop, can nearly always be relied 

 upon to produce a crop under conditions 

 of drought too severe for wheat or other 

 grain. There are both spring and win- 

 ter varieties. The spring types are most 

 valuable as green manuring crops, and 

 also for simimer forage and pastiu^age. 

 Winter varieties are most profitable for 

 the production of grain and forage. The 

 value of rye as forage is almost equal to 

 that of timothy if cut at the proper time. 

 Since rye produces a heavy foliage even 

 under very dry conditions, it is specially 

 esteemed as a dry-farm forage crop. Its 

 grain, too, is valuable as a stock food. 

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