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Show DRY FARM IN SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Method to Be Used on Mil-lions Mil-lions of Acres of Land Not Possible to Irrigate. The future of South Africa Is likely to be changed by the adoption of dry farming. It has long been supposed that the development of her agriculture agricul-ture depended upon irrigation, and numerous nu-merous government rrlgation projects are In process. But there are millions of acres to which water cannot be taken, ta-ken, and here the government proposes pro-poses to introduce the science of dry farming The Transvaal department of agriculture freely admits its debt in this field to the three pioneer workers I or the United States: Professor Hil-gard Hil-gard of California, our most eminent agricultural chemist; Dr. Widtsoe of Utah, who secure the first legislative measure in support of dry farming, which provided six experimental farms; and W. H. Campball of Nebraska, Nebras-ka, the agricultural revivalist, who preaches throughout the west the gospel gos-pel of better tillage and the merits of his machine, the sub-surface packer. South Africa belongs to the International Interna-tional Dry Farming congress and has a government dry farming station in the center of the dry land zone for experiments in conservation of soil and moisture, tillage methods and drought resistant crops. Experiments of seven years' duration have demon-strsted demon-strsted that corn can be grown In South Africa by dry farming methods, 'and that she posseses a wheat belt, in the dry land zone, of 180 million acres, which may be of more value than her gold fields of diamond mines. |