Show FARMING WITH LITTLE RAIN I I Fundamental Ideas Are the Storage c < Limited Rainfall 1n the Soil to Raise Crops Dy Prot J D Tinnley Boll Physicist and Mold Expert New Mexico Experiment Ex-periment Station Dry farming IB a term which has been > Introduced In recent years to designate nn agricultural method dlf cling from the production of crops by an abundance of rainfall nnd by Irrigation This farming with a limited limit-ed rainfall while having become widely wide-ly known only within the mast few years Is not n now thing in Now Mex leo for In certain section the Indians In-dians nnd Mexicans have practiced 11 1 for a long time especially with corn and beans The Indians usually select se-lect the sandy land at the mouths of arroyos and thus take advantage of the natural mulching of the sand nnd the Irrigation from the floodwaters flood-waters of tho arroyos The Mex Icnn name of It Is temporal farming farm-ing to distinguish It from farming by irrigation Dry farming conditions range from the conditions found In humid climates to those where tho rainfall Is so email that only an occasional oc-casional crop can be obtained The fundamental Ideas of dry farming are he storage of the limited rainfall In ho soil and the growing of those varieties va-rieties of crops which can mature with a minimum amount of water It does not at nil Imply tile growing of crops without water There are two principal prin-cipal cropping methods depending on the amount of rain that of growing a crop every year and that of pnly Hunting once In two years saving the moisture from the first to assist the crop during the second season |