El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-06

inches annually and progressively in
! creaSeS to about 20 inches at Midland
and TO above 25 inches at San Antonio.
Summer Rain.
In the southwest and generally south
Of the southern boundary of Colorado,
the major portions of the precipita-
ton come in summer There the fall
and winter grains have not been found
successful. The district seems especial
~ adapted TO the Saccharine and nom
sacchar1ne sorghums, to Indian and
broom corn, TO melons and beans and
some kinds of small fruits The Quick
growing late summer crops have given
the best satisfaction.
North of the last mentioned line the
greater portion Of the rainfall comes
J In winter and spring, when snowfall is
also extensive This is the home of the
fall grain crops and the big problem
OF the farmer is TO conserve the winter
precipitation far enough into spring and
summer TO mature fall or early spring
SoWn crops. Sorghums have also been
successful. Alfalfa seems TO promise
great deal of success in some seq
tlons, but the cereals are considered as
standard to the region Wheats. bar-
ley, rye, emmerindian corn and other
crops that flourish under similar envi-
ronment have been grown for wears
tricts of Washington, Oregon. Idaho
wyoming. Montana, Utah. Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas
also In the provinces of Alberta. Sas-
katchewan, Manitoba and British CO.
lumbia
Rule of Rainfall
Ory farming experts have not entirely
agreed TO the upper and lower regions
oI precipitation for defining dry farm
region having an annual average pre-
clpltation above eight and below 20
thches- To this was added the follow
ing cause: Providing no moisture is
received from seepage or sdb-irriga-
Ion The board Of governors of the
Diy farmlng congress have promulgat-
Cd the following rules in regard to nro-
ducts exhibited at the third Internation-
al Dry Farming exposition to be held
IN spokane, Wash, October to s.:
EXHIBITS viii be accepted in the Inter
national Dry Farming exposition from
'nat territory in the United States in
Guiding and west of the 9Sth meridian
ana up to and including the 121st merid-
Adll' ana from sections and communities
outside the limits of the United States
where the annual precipitation averages
uhoer 20 inches, providing such pro-
oucts have not been grown upon irA
-i6"lou' SUD irrigated or Seepage land
possibilities of development of such
Ianos as come within the limits of the
rule quoted almost stagger the imag-
lhatlon. 1t has been conservatively es
tlmated that 200. zoo, 600 acres of land
await development within the semi-arid
regions of the United States alone.
AhLs area, once 1t is occupied by a
successful and contented and prosper
Gus agricultural class, will mean an
nuaI or at least semi-annual crops from
Chls vast empire now largely in virgin
500 The conversion of such lands from
I'd" prairie to agricultural holdings will
mean the addition, at low estimate of
SZO an acre to their value, or 1000 OOO,-
VVo' to the aggregate agricultural
wealth west of the Tooth meridian
1t VIII also mean an Independent farm
nome on at least each 500 acres, or
oVO'OOO additional farm homes
Worlds Semi-Arid Lands
america, however, offers only a COM
paratively small portion of the worlds
selnl-arid lands. Canada, Mexico, the
Argentine, Brazil, South Africa. Aus