DRY-LAND EXPERIMENTS 



ing to Washington Mr. Chilcott was 

 Professor of Agriculture and Geology in 

 the South Dakota Agricultural College 

 and had a long and wide experience in 

 dry-farming in the Great Plains area. 

 Under his direction this work has ex- 

 tended in a remarkable manner and 

 already eleven dry-land experiment sta- 

 tions have been established, and several 

 more will be started in the course of the 

 next year or so. The area over which 

 these operations extend is truly enormous 

 and may be said to reach from the Mis- 

 sissippi westward to the Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains in California and to the Up- 

 lands of the Columbia River basin; and 

 from the Canadian line southward to 

 the Panhandle of Texas ; in all a tract of 

 coiintry comprising roughly one million 

 square miles. The policy of the Depart- 

 ment is to work in cordial harmony with 

 the various State governments and to 

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