Abstract

Dry forming as at present understood is the system of farming extensive areas of land purely with the aid of rainfall received in a locality. It mainly consists in the attempt to save all the rainfall of one or more seasons, by different agricultural operations for the use of a crop during its period of growth. In foreign countries where rainfall in some places is not more than 12 inches annually, fair crops have thus been realised by cropping the land every other year. Under this system great care is taken to keep the land stirred often, even when there is no crop in the field, the objects being, to maintain the soil in good tilth, to make it ever ready to absorb the rain, dew, etc. to the largest extent possible, and at the same time to prevent the evaporation of soil moisture due to atmospheric changes. This method of cultivation in western countries is termed cultivated fallow i. e., laying lands fallow but in a stirred state.

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