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Show HOW IRRIGATION WILL HELP Washington Man Makes Address Before Be-fore Hamilton Club of Chicago on Intensive Farming. In an address before the Hamilton club of Chicago on irrigation, Mr. R. Isinger of Spokane, Wash., made the following statements: "Irrigation invariably means intensive in-tensive cultivation, and this in turn means larger crops. Through the use of smaller tracts the country districts dis-tricts become so thickly populated they resemble suburbs of large cities; but there is no congestion, nor 13 there the menace of an underfed, poorly housed population. It means the Ideal farm village, lighted by electricity, furnished with domestic water through pipes, good roads, rural mail delivery, telephones, automobiles, trolley lines and other mouern conveniences. con-veniences. It means a union of the social features of town and the healthful health-ful ones of the country life and, as some one has well said, "the disappearance disap-pearance of "lonesomeness," ' without the worse evil of, overcrowding. |