THE PRESENT STATUS OP DRY-FARMING 391 



SO widely advertised during the dry season of 1894, 

 the farmers who remained on their farms and since 

 that time have employed modern methods have se- 

 cured wealth from their labors. The important ques- 

 tion before the farmers of this district is that of 

 methods for securing the best results. From the 

 Dakotas to Texas the farmers bear' the testimony 

 that wherever the soil has been treated right, accord- 

 ing to approved methods, there have been no crop 

 failures. 



Canada 



Dry-farming has been pushed vigorously in the 

 semiarid portions of Canada, and with great success. 

 Dry-farming is now reclaiming large areas of formerly 

 worthless land, especially in Alberta, Saskatchewan, 

 and the adjoining provinces. Dry-farming is com- 

 paratively recent in Canada, yet here and there are 

 semiarid localities where crops have been raised 

 without irrigation for upwards of a quarter of a cen- 

 tury. In Alberta and other places it has been now 

 practiced successfully for eight or ten years, and it 

 may be said that dry-farming is a well-established 

 practice in the semiarid regions of the Dominion of 

 Canada. 



Mexico 



In Mexico, likewise, dry-farming has been tried and 

 found to be successful. The natives of Mexico have 



