Show DEFINITION OF DRY FARMING Does Not Mean for One Moment Raising Rais-ing Crop Without Water Which Is Impossible Of course dry farming or as It Is sometimes called dry land farming does not mean for one moment farmIng farm-Ing without water which would bo nnI I Impossibility but farming that te done I with a much smaller amount of rainfall I rain-fall than Is normal where crops anti grown under ordinary conditions as to precipitation Usually such farming Is done where the precipitation Is not moro than 15 Inches In tho year When the rainfall Is more than 15 Inches In tho year It Is possible to grow crops every year on tho land Where the rainfall Is less than that amount this Is not always possible Dhy farming Is usually confined In the United States to what Is known as tho semiarid country This means a country that begins about 150 to 200 miles west of tho Minnesota border and extends westward to tho Cascade mountains All of the land that Is arable ar-able In the area named cannot bo farmed but much of It can Some of the land Is arid In the absence of Irrigation Irri-gation and cannot bo farmed under other conditions Such lands are frequently fre-quently found In the river valleys buff they also comprise other lands The lauds that are farmed on tho dry farmIng farm-Ing plan are usually bench lands but they do not all come under that class They also Include lands that lie close to tho mountains where In many instances in-stances there Is more or less of subterranean sub-terranean Irrigation Dry farming may be said to embrace two kinds of farming that is It maybe may-be conducted by two different methods meth-ods dependent on tho nature of the land more especially with reference to Its conformation When the land Is all aralilo from 160 to 320 acres Is ample for a farm When the larger portion Is hilly and furnishes only grazing then from ono to several sections should be Included In tho farm This large area Is necessary for the reason that the production of this farm must consist mainly of live stock which must be grazed on pastures grown under un-der dry conditions Within these rough and hilly lands valleys or level stretches may usually be found and on these fodder may be grown on which to feed the stock in stormy wnnHior In winter Hn Mm fnrma thnt n are all tillable the production of grain Is the chief aim Dry land farming cannot in many Instances secure more than one crop In two years The land or much of It Is stunmer fallowed ono year and the crop is grown tho next Very frequently fre-quently tho crop grown Is uvlnter wheat but In some instances spring crops also are grown The object of the summertallowing Is to conserve the moisture The same end is secured se-cured by growing a cultivated crop as corn potatoes or field roots Where such a crop alternates with grain a crop Is obtained from the land every year It will bo npparenf therefore that tho dry land farmer will not get Iso I-so many crops from a given area as will the famer in a country with ample am-ple rain but he will get larger ylel sand s-and this aids in putting him on a level with other farmers in tho rainy country I coun-try |