title: Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall
author: John Andreas Widtsoe
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  # Dry-Farming
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John A. Widtsoe
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE
  
  
  CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF DRY-FARMING
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER III. DRY-FARM AREAS—RAINFALL
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. DRY-FARM AREAS.—GENERAL CLIMATIC
  
  
  FEATURES
  
  
  CHAPTER V. DRY-FARM SOILS
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE ROOT SYSTEMS OF PLANTS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. STORING WATER IN THE SOIL
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. REGULATING THE EVAPORATION
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. REGULATING THE TRANSPIRATION
  
  
  CHAPTER X. PLOWING AND FALLOWING
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. SOWING AND HARVESTING
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. CROPS FOR DRY-FARMING
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. THE COMPOSITION OF DRY-FARM CROPS
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. IMPLEMENTS FOR DRY-FARMING
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. IRRIGATION AND DRY-FARMING
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. THE HISTORY OF DRY-FARMING
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. DRY-FARMING IN A NUTSHELL
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. THE YEAR OF DROUTH
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. THE PRESENT STATUS OF DRY-FARMING
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  Edited by Charles Aldarondo (a