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of agriculture according to tlieir personal inclina- 

 tions. 



The scarcity of water 



For the development of a well-rounded common- 

 wealth in an arid region it is, of course, indispensable 

 that irrigation be practiced, for dry-farming of itself 

 will find it difficult to build up i)opulous cities and to 



Fig. 91. Dry-farm homestead, Montana, eleven months after land had 

 Ijeen filed upon. 



supply the great variety of cnjps demanded by the 

 modern family. In fact, one of the great problems 

 before those engaged in the development of dry- 

 farming at present is the development of homesteads 



