Show definition OF DRY FARMING does not mean for one moment ralo ing crops without water which Is Irn impossible possible of OC course dry farming or as it la Is sometimes called dry land farming does not mean for one moment farm without water which would be an impossibility but farming that Is done with a much smaller amount of rainfall than Is normal where crops are grown under ordinary conditions as to precipitation usually such farming is done where the precipitation Is not more than 15 inches in the year when the rainfall Is more than 15 inches in the year it Is possible to grow crops every year on the land where the rainfall Is less than that amount this is not always possible chy farming is usually confined in the united states to what is known as tho the semiarid semi arid country this means a country that begins about to miles wast of the minnesota border and extends westward to the cascade mountains all of the land anat is arable in the area named cannot be farmed but much of it can some of the land is arid in the absence of irrigation and cannot be farmed under other conditions such lands ands are frequently found in the river valleys but they also comprise other lands the landy landh that are farmed en the dry farm ing plan are usually bench lands but aney do not all come under that class they also include lands that lie close to the mountains where in many instances there Is more or less of subterranean irrigation dr farming may be said to embrace two kinds of farming farmin that is it may be conducted by two different methods dependent on the nature of the land more especially with referd reference nee to its conformation when the land is all arable from to acres is ample for a farm when the larger portion is hilly and furnishes only grazing then from one to several sections a be included in the farm this larv 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 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 weather in winter on the farms that are all tillable the production of grain is the chief aim dry land farming cannot in man many instances secure more inore than one crop in two years the land or much of it is summer fallowed fallowes one ye year arand and the crop Is grown the next very frequently the crop grown I 1 Is fa winter wheat but ansome in instances spring crops also are grown the object of the summer fallowing following is to conserve conser ve the moisture the same end is secured by growing a cultivated crop as corn potatoes or field roots where such a crop alternates with grain a crop Is stained from the land every year it will be apparent therefore that the dry land farmer will not ge get so many crops from f rom a given area as will the farmer in a country with ample ampie rain but ho he will gel ge larger yields and this aids in putting him on a level with other farmers in the rainy coun try |