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Show Practical Suggestions. A gravelly or open subsoil makes irrigation very difficult and expensive, if riot absolutely impossible. More water is lost by seepage In wells and In irrigation ditcheB several sev-eral times more than by evaporation. evapora-tion. Too much water is fully as dangerous, dan-gerous, sometimes more so, than not enough. Getting the wrong kind of machinery, machin-ery, or the poor drilling of wells, almost alwayB means disaster, and generally leads to failure and sometimes some-times to bankruptcy. Don't blame irrigation for these mistakes mis-takes and failures. Be sure you are right before you go ahead and the rewards re-wards of irrigation will be ample. |