Nearly six tenths of the earth’s land surface receive an annual rainfall of less than twenty inches, and can be reclaimed for agricultural purposes only by irrigation and dry farming.

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1. Introduction-Dry Farming Defined
2. The Theoretical Basis of Dry-farming
3. Dry-farm Areas-Rainfall
4. Dry-farm Areas-General Climatic Features
5. Dry-farm Soils
6. The Root-system of Plants
7. Storing Water in the Soil
8. Regulating The Evaporation
9. Regulating the Transpiration
10. Plowing and Fallowing
11. Sowing and Harvesting
12. Crop for Dry-farming
13. The composition of Dry-farm Crops
14. Maintaining the Soil-fertility
15. Implements for Dry-farming
16. Irrigation and Dry-farming
17. The History of Dry-farming
18. The Present Status of Dry-farming
19. The Year of Drouth
20. Dry-farming in a Nutshell

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