Dry-Farming: A System of Agriculture for Countries Under a Low Rainfall

New York: Macmillan Company, 1913. 445pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Green decorative publisher's binding with the title gilt on the backstrip. Near fine. Illustrated throughout. Nice copy of this rare agricultural work by the noted academic and apostle. John Andreas Widtsoe (1872-1952) was born in Norway to John A. and Anna C. Gaarden Widtsoe. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1881 when his widowed mother joined. In 1883 the small Widtsoe family moved to Utah where John A. Widtsoe later attended Brigham Young College in Logan. He eventually went to Harvard for his Master's and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Goettingen in Germany. Upon returning to Utah he worked in various agricultural experiments before becoming a professor of agriculture at Brigham Young University in Provo. After two years of teaching, he was appointed President of the Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) and later the President of the University of Utah. At the end of his tenure as President of the University of Utah, he was called to be an apostle for the LDS Church, a position which he filled until his death. (Inventory #: 9937)