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. Dry-farming;. Dry farming. [from old catalog]. RAISING THE WATER 343 Lovett, and Scott, who worked under New Mexico conditions, have reported that crops can be produced profitably by the use of water raised to the surface for irrigation. Fleming and Stoneking, who conducted very careful experiments on the subject in New Mexico, found that the cost of raising through one foot a quantity of water corresponding to a depth of one. Fig. 94. Dry-farm vegetable garden. Dawsou Co., Montana. foot over one acre of land varied from a cent and an eighth to nearly twenty-nine cents, with an average of a httle more than ten cents. This means that the cost of raising enough water to cover one acre to a depth of one foot through a distance of forty feet would average $4.36. This includes not only the cost of the fuel and supervision of the pump but the actual deterioration of the plant. Smith investi-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Widtsoe, John Andreas, 1872-1952. New York, The Macmillan company