THE HISTORY OF DRY-FARMING 



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of the population along their lines and for the pur- 

 pose of assisting the settlers in the arid West con- 

 siderable sums have been expended by the railroads 

 in cooperation with the stations for the gathering of 



Fig. 100. 



Using treadmill for threshing grain from small plants on one 

 of tile Utah experimental dry-farms. 



information of value in the reclamation of arid lands 

 without irrigation. 



It is through the efforts of the experiment stations 

 that the knowledge of the day has been reduced to a 

 science of dry-farming. Every student of the sub- 

 ject admits that much is yet to be learned before the 

 last word has been said concerning the methods of 

 dry-farming in reclaiming the waste places of the 

 earth. The future of dry- farming rests almost 

 wholly upon the energy and intelligence with which 



