no more very difficult grow maize sooner or later countless extended

no more very difficult grow maize sooner or later countless extended from before reaching desert area twice a year very dry by all means animal life can support

For the past 100 years, the immense stretch of barren American desert has been growing smaller. Three generations ago, the wasteland 1__ the Mississippi Valley in the east almost to the Pacific Coast. But men learned that the prairies could 2__ and that the grass lands could feed cattle and sheep or yield wheat. As they continued to cultivate the desert, the size of the 3__ decreased. Today, there are still 60 to 70 thousand square miles of desert. In the 600 miles between Salt Lake City and Reno, Nevada, there is nothing but dead lakes, dry rivers, snakes and small 4__ , enormous mineral wealth, and the inhuman beauty of the desert. Parts of the region 5__ cattle, but most of it remains desert country. And though it is an empire in size, it is 6__ than town in population. Here between the Sierra Nevada in the west and the Rock ies in the east, the climate is 7___ and hot. Even fairly large rivers from the mountains dry up so rapidly that they die 8__ the end of the desert. But 9__ it rains, even here. In midsummer and midwinter. In this land of little water, farming was 10___ . It would have been impossible if farmers had not planned and worked together. Fearing no task, they built more than 100 towns and 11__ gardens.

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