CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction: Dry-farming defined; 2. The theoretical basis of dry-farming; 3. Dry-farm areas-rainfall; 4. Dry-farm areas--general climatic features; 5. Dry-farm soils; 6. The root-systems of plants; 7. Storing water in the soil; 8. Regulating the evaporation; 9. Regulating the transpiration; 10. Plowing and fallowing; 11. Sowing and harvesting; 12. Crops for dry-farming; 13. The composition of dry-farm crops; 14. Maintaining the soil-fertility; 15. Implements for dry-farming; 16. Irrigation and dry-farming; 17. The history of dry-farming; 18. The present status of dry-farming; 19. The year of drouth; 20. Dry-farming in a nutshell; Appendices: 1. A partial bibliography of publications on dry-farming; 2. Text of the Smoot-Mondell bill.