Show Dry Farming Not New While the dryfarming movement has received Its greatest Impetus during dur-ing recent years of agricultural development devel-opment in the west It is not a new science The Chinese have been applying ap-plying a system of tillage similar to that which we call dry farming for more than 2000 years according to F N Meyer foreign exploration agent of the United States department 01 < agriculture In Palestine and northern north-ern Africa very dry regions crops have been raised for centuries without with-out Irrigation In Turkestan Thesna lonlca on tho steppes of Siberia In Hungary in South Africa In the desert countries of Australia In Mos Iroln South merlca and in northwest north-west Canada the methods of tho dry farmers of the south and west have been applied with success |