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began in Utah in 1901, the subject has been a lead- 

 ing one in the Station and the College. A large num- 

 ber of men trained at the Utah Station and College 

 have gone out as investigators of dry-farming under 

 state and Federal direction. 



The other experiment stations in the arid and semi- 

 arid region were not slow to take up the work for 

 their respective states. Fortier and Linfield, who 

 had spent a number of years in Utah and had become 

 somewhat familiar with the dry-farm practices of 

 that state, initiated dry-farm investigations in 

 Montana, which have been prosecuted with great 

 vigor since that time. Vernon, under the direction 

 of Foster, who had spent four years in Utah as 

 Director of the Utah Station, initiated the work in 

 New Mexico. In Wyoming the experimental study 

 of dry-farm lands began by the private enterprise 

 of H. B. Henderson and his associates. Later 

 V. T. Cooke was placed in charge of the work under 

 state auspices, and the demonstration of the feasi- 

 bility of dry-farming in Wyoming has been going on 

 since about 1907. Idaho has also recently under- 

 taken diy-farm investigations. Nevada, once looked 

 upon as the only state in the Union incapal^le of 

 producing crops without irrigation, is demonstrating 

 by means of state appropriations that large areas 

 there are suitable for dry-farming. In Arizona, 

 small tracts in this sun-baked state are shown to 

 be suitable for dry-farm lands. The Washington 



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