Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Aridity and Crops. [ARTICLE]

Aridity and Crops.

In ancient civilization we find the people showed a preference for arid countries and there were most fertile. Egypt, Palestine, Persia, Syria, oases in the. Libyan and Sahara deserts, Arabia, on both stales of the Mediterranean; in fact everywhere aridity occurs is closely linked/ with the world’s greatest and most valuable crops. J