Show TRY DRY FARMS IN HUNGARY american plan tried with success in over 2000 tests to expert ment in north africa this country Is not the only one to golze upon now new ideas hungary not hot supposed BUp posed to be among the roost most pr progressive gres sive of nations has taken wi with tb enthusiasm to the system of dry farm arming that to ia making profitable much ot of what was once called the arid w west est I 1 the process of dry farming consists cansis to in rolling hard the field after plowing thou then harrowing the surface until it is ia a fine powder the moisture la Is retained under the hard layer through which it Is brought up by capillary tion to th the plant rcola surface layer will not suck it up any fart farther lier so BO that it its Is not evaporated director kerpely of the hungarian academy of horticulture reports that he has made over 2000 tests of this method in the thelast last three years ye arsand and in every case casa there was waa an increased yield averaging 60 50 per cent more than without it one landed proprietor named fechtig tried experiments on his own account cout lit and reports that in a poor region where the wheat yield in 1910 was from 4 to 12 quintals quint als per hectare the yield last year by the dry farming method was from 16 to 24 quintals quint als the same proprietor obtained from SO 30 to 36 quintals quint als of barley and oats on land where formerly 20 was considered a good yield the next experiments will very lilie like ly be tried in north africa which in ancient times was waa one of the gra granaries narles or of rome it Is possible that the great supplies of wheat once sent from this ghisi dry region may manhave mayji have ave be been en due to some similar system of dry farming the secret of which has been lost |