394 DRY-FARMING 



district that receives between thirteen and twenty 

 inches. The rain comes in the summer, maldng the 

 conditions similar to those of the Great Plains. The 

 success of dry-farming has already been practically 

 demonstrated. The cjuestion before the Transvaal 

 farmers is the determination of the best a])plication 

 of water conserving methods under the prevailing 

 conditions. Under proper leadership the Transvaal 

 and other portions of Africa will probably join the 

 ranks of the larger dry-farming countries of the world. 



Eussia 



^lore than one fourth of the whole of Russia is so 

 dry as to l^e reclaimable only by dry-farming. The 

 arid area of southern European Paissia has a climate 

 very much like that of the Great Plains. Turkestan 

 and middle Asiatic Russia have a climate more like 

 that of the Great Basin. In a great number of lo- 

 calities in l)()th European and Asiatic Russia dry- 

 farming has l)een ]3racticed for a number of 3'ears. 

 The methods employed have not been of the most 

 refined kind, due, ])ossibly, to the condition of the 

 people constituting the farming class. The govern- 

 ment is now becoming interested in the matter and 

 there is no doubt that dry-farming will also be prac- 

 ticed on a verv large scale in Russia. 



