Show I ARIZONA It was one of Mr witticisms that the rich man had Ice In summer and the poor man had It in winter and It was a standoff Arizona has water enough to vitalize every acre of desert land In the near state But it comes at a a season oL of the year when the desert particularly particularly care for a drink and It will eli aU aUbe elibe be gone the day of germinating seeds and encouraging vegetation returns Up In the Connecticut valley some men ten years ago established a farm under They set sat posts Into the ground leavIng eight feet of each lifting lift liftIng Ing Into the atmosphere They tacked cheesecloth over thirteen acres of ground so set with posts and stretched a wall of the same material all around the tho tract Then they planted tobacco In the ground and raised some something something thing rather better than the best that thatis is produced in the Vuelta district of Cuba They planted corn com and raised better corn and more of It to the acre acro than any farmer In Connecticut could equal Rain and dew came camo through the tha cheesecloth in a sort of vapor Vapo and simply sim simply ply saturated the ground The sun light t of the hottest days was tempered In fIerceness and mingled with h humid humidity Ity Vegetation was Immune from frosts and developed without an hours t delay from planting time In the spring to harvesting time tn in the fall They propose to prove that all sorts of crops can be raised under roof Thet Is going to be the solution of all the farmers problems some time Do you t think he Is going forever to be dependent de dependent pendent on the whims of the weather Not much These Arizona people who have water enough for the entire se season son will use It the entire season They may have to erect dams In the mountains They may haVe to spend some money in laying down ditches But the day Is coming when they will make no complaints com complaints plaints of too much water In January and too little In June The farmer everywhere Is going to use all the ad advantages advantages vantages that nature provides He will utilize the last vestige of blessing And there Is just the suggestion of a reminder for our own Utah people They may not have water enough for all their acres But they will one of these days use all the water they have And it wilt make ferUle fertile a lot of square miles that now look hopeless |