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dry farming †
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a technique of farming in a semi-arid region without recourse to irrigation.
Quotations
1945
"Furthermore, the Mormons did not 'discover the system of dry farming'; neither did they bring the method to western Canada. The system of summer cultivation and the packing of the soil to hold the moisture was first advocated in western Canada by Angus MacKay, a Scottish-Canadian superintendent of the Dominion Government Experimental Farm at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, as early as 1889. . . ."
1965
The "dry farming" type of agriculture as practised in Saskatchewan some years ago, resulted in the development of methods . . . to increase the moisture content of the soil and control weeds.