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Dry-farming, however, is well established. There 

 are large areas, especially in Nevada, that receive 

 less than ten inches of rainfall annually, and one 

 of the leading problems before the dry-farmers of 

 this district is the determination of the possibility 



Fig. 103. Dr\ iarm Kuljanka wheat, and nature of fountry near Reno, 



Nevada. 



of producing crops u]3on such lands without irriga- 

 tion. On the older dry-farms, which have existed 

 in some cases from forty to fifty years, there are no 

 signs of diminution of soil-fertility. Undoubtedly, 

 however, even under the conditions of extremely 

 high fertility prevailing in the Great Basin, the time 

 will soon come when the dry-farmer must make 

 provision for restoring to the soil some of the fertility 



