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taken away by crops. There are millions of acres 

 in the Great Basin yet to be taken up and subjected 

 to the will of the dry-farmer. 



Colorado and Rio Grande River Basins 



The Colorado and Rio Grande River Basins include 

 Arizona and the western part of New Mexico. The 

 chief dry-farm crops of this dry district are wheat, 

 corn, and beans. Other crops have also been grown 

 in small quantities and with some success. The area 

 suitable for dry-farming in this district has not yet 

 been fully determined and, therefore, the Arizona and 

 New Mexico stations are undertaking dry-farm sur- 

 veys of their respective states. In spite of the fact 

 that Arizona is generally looked upon as one of the 

 driest states of the Union, dry-farming is making 

 considerable headway there. In New Mexico, five 

 sixths of all the homestead applications during the 

 last year were for dry-farm lands ; and, in fact, there 

 are several prosperous communities in New Mexico 

 which are subsisting almost wholly on dry-farming. 

 It is only fair to say, however, that dry-farming is 

 not yet well established in this district, but that the 

 prospects are that the application of scientific prin- 

 ciples will soon make it possible to produce profitable 

 crops without irrigation in large parts of the Colorado 

 and Rio Grande River Basins. 



