Show FARMING WITH LITTLE RAIN in central tunit tunis successful crops are ac produced on annual fall of less than six inches one of the greatest and most art agricultural booms in tho the world la Is la in africa the dry land tanning farming of central tunis w here the rainfall la Is less than ten inches writes prof 1 russell smith in harpers magazine the success is astonishing in the taca face of the uncertainty dread and failure that harass our own as yet unadjusted dry land agriculture As an evidence evide ncr of 0 local failure I 1 would cite the lations of an agricultural scientist on oa a recent gomile go 90 mile journey in the southam part of t the he great plains where the rainfall averages 20 inches in the SO go miles traversed there was but one surviving settler and not even EL a cattle ranch the dry farmers had pushed out the cattlemen and the recent droughts had pushed out the dry farmers all but one in a strip as long as from new york to philadelphia p his our uncertainties arise under a rainfall of ten to twenty inches the africans complacency la Is assured by less than ten inches subscriptions script ions have recently been taken up here for people living in an average rainfall of 16 to 18 inches yet the tha complacent success of tunis is in the tha vicinity of where in seven consecutive years the total rainfall amounted to 41 5 S 8 10 inches a year |