A DROUTH-RESISTING FARM 



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Fig. 109. Carting macaroni wlicat to the wharves in southern Russia. 



Plains area. According to Alway, the country is in 

 appearance very much hive western Nebraska and 

 Kansas; the climate is distinctly arid, and the pre- 

 cipitation comes mainly in the spring and summer. 

 It is the only experimental dry-farm in the Great 

 Plains area with records that go back before the dry 

 years of the early '90's. In 1882 the soil of this farm 

 was broken, and it was farmed continuously until 1888, 



