TAILIEUCHUNG - CROPS FOR DRY-FARMING

The work of the dry-farmer is only half done when the soil has been properly prepared, by deep plowing, cultivation, fallowing, for the planting of the crop. The choice of the crop, its proper seeding, and its correct care and harvesting are as important as rational soil treatment in the successful pursuit of dry-farming. It is true that in general the kinds of crops ordinarily cultivated in humid regions are grown also on arid lands, but varieties especially adapted to the prevailing dry-farm conditions must be used if any certainty of harvest is desired. Plants possess a marvelous power. | CROPS FOR DRY-FARMING The work of the dry-farmer is only half done when the soil has been properly prepared by deep plowing cultivation fallowing for the planting of the crop. The choice of the crop its proper seeding and its correct care and harvesting are as important as rational soil treatment in the successful pursuit of dry-farming. It is true that in general the kinds of crops ordinarily cultivated in humid regions are grown also on arid lands but varieties especially adapted to the prevailing dry-farm conditions must be used if any certainty of harvest is desired. Plants possess a marvelous power of adaptation to environment and this power becomes stronger as successive generations of plants are grown under the given conditions. Thus plants which have been grown for long periods of time in countries of abundant rainfall and characteristic humid climate and soil yield well under such conditions but usually suffer and die or at best yield scantily if planted in hot rainless countries with deep soils. Yet such plants if grown year after year under arid conditions become accustomed to warmth and dryness and in time will yield perhaps nearly as well or it may be better in their new surroundings. The dry-farmer who looks for large harvests must use every care to secure varieties of crops that through generations of breeding have become adapted to the conditions prevailing on his farm. Home-grown seeds if grown properly are therefore of the highest value. In fact in the districts where dry-farming has been practiced longest the best yielding varieties are with very few exceptions those that have been grown for many successive years on the same lands. The comparative newness of the attempts to produce profitable crops in the present dry-farming territory and the consequent absence of home-grown seed has rendered it wise to explore other regions of the world with similar climatic conditions but long inhabited for suitable crop varieties. The United States Department

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