DRY
FARMING
by
John A Widtsoe
Contents:
- Dry Farming Defined
- Theoretical Basis
of Dry-Farming
- Dry-farm Areas--Rainfall
- Dry-farm Areas--General
Climatic Features
- Dry-farm Soils
- Root-systems of Plants
- Storing Water in
the Soil
- Regulating the Evaporation
- Regulating the Transpiration
- Plowing and Fallowing
- Sowing and Harvesting
- Crops for Dry-farming
- The Composition of
Dry-farm Crops
- Maintaining the Soil-fertility
- Implements for Dry-farming
- Irrigation and Dry-farming
- The History of Dry-farming
- The Present Status
of Dry Farming
- The Year of Drouth
- Dry-farming in a
Nutshell