THE FOREIGN STATUS OF DRY-FARMING 393 



Australia 



Australia, larger than the continental United 

 States, is vitally interested in dry-farming, for one 

 third of its vast area is under a rainfall of less than 

 ten inches, and another third is under a rainfall of 

 between ten and twenty inches. Two thirds of the 

 area of Australia, if reclaimed at all, must be re- 

 claimed by dry-farming. The realization of this 

 condition has led several Australians to visit the 

 United States for the purpose of learning the methods 

 employed in dry-farming. The reports on dry- 

 farming in America by Surveyor-General Straw- 

 bridge and Senator J. H. McColl have done much to 

 initiate a vigorous propaganda in behalf of dry- 

 farming in Australia. Investigation has shown that 

 occasional farmers are found in Australia, as in 

 America, who have discovered for themselves many 

 of the methods of dry-farming and have succeeded in 

 producing crops profitably. Undoubtedly, in time, 

 Australia will be one of the great dry-farming coun- 

 tries of the world. 



Africa 



Up to the present. South Africa only has taken an 

 active interest in the dry-farm movement, due to the 

 enthusiastic labors of Dr. William Macdonald of the 

 Transvaal. The Transvaal has an average annual 

 precipitation of twenty-three inches, with a large 



