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@@ -1,47 +1,5 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dry-Farming, by John A. Widtsoe +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 4924 *** -Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the -copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing -this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. - -This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project -Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the -header without written permission. - -Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the -eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is -important information about your specific rights and restrictions in -how the file may be used. 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Not only is it the most generally used cereal, but the world is rapidly learning to depend more and more upon the dry-farming areas of the world for wheat production. In the arid and semiarid regions it is now a commonly accepted @@ -5058,7 +5016,7 @@ is a corresponding increase of the corn crop. The dryfarming territory does not yet realize the value of corn as a dry-farm crop. The known facts concerning corn make it safe to predict, however, that its dry farm acreage will increase rapidly, and that in time it -will crowd the wheat crop for pre�minence. +will crowd the wheat crop for preëminence. Sorghums @@ -8306,321 +8264,4 @@ that more than 55 per cent of the world's surface receives an annual rainfall of less than twenty inches. 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