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Show jHvTsitcd Salt Pew weeks ago as a member of the Country Life Cotn- mision sent out by President Roosc- . t vclt, offers some pertinent advice through his paper Wallace's Farmer. Farm-er. The first part of the article is a I warning against eastern farmers buy- ing fake or wild-cat mining stocks or I any other mining stock for that mat- 1 tcr, with which suggestion we most I heartily concur. He then warns H against buying lands with inadequate I water supply or lands that will be 1 ruined by alkali after a year or two's irrigation. Proceeding Mr. Wallace I says: E We have purposely put the darker side and tried to strip away the green- I noss of the far-away pastures. It may R be well to state that where the farm- - -1 cr buys good soil (and most of these J irrigated' soils arc "exceedingly rich), ' with markets available, -cither at present pres-ent or in the near future, who has sufficient capital, who has the gift of J continuance, the grit to endure, he can I make money much more rapidly than J yith the same capital under eondi- ffl tiops in the-corn belt. We would not B Hare tell ouY people of 'the "fortunes & that have been made iby men who B IT"76tiiid wisely and fanned int'cl- fl hare sftS&BBRL.-. ii H 11 ' '-- ligcntly and adopted the newest mcth-R mcth-R ods. Wc venture to say, however, that an income of one hundred, two H hundred, and even three hundred dol-1( dol-1( lars per acre is not uncommon, cs- pecially when the lands have been adapted to growing fruit and where '1 the farmer understands his business. 4 |