Show w r iaAn M M I 5 LITTLE FARMS t I THE IlE DESERT ty V ml f On tho great Brent desert of ot th l n iracK in southeastern r ts I i marvelous Ilan work of I I intimately half hl n a mil milin 11 in I ni u ro x of or fertile but utterly soil sol will be hr Wi rt Into the most pro 10 f In tho world Ih Is t i I cm tendency In II this district u larKO fillin 0 or CIO GIO ar I thin portion of tho public domain ship a Into owner oner flY liy of or the Id dor r thin hw law n u d ual may 1 a take lake acres acel or 01 a man ami his twice ns much which Is II a II full tul square mile mie Is h EO much land reasonably necessary for n a prosperous homo on 01 ilch Ieh Irrigated land where crops never neer fall because Insured by b the tho How 10 of u 1 great river and In a where crow every e ry month In the tho year ear and ant where wonderful forage crop alfalfa may IW be he harvested eight times In III 12 1 months Thero aro some good Jil business mon men In tho 1 who answer this question In the and who even I n ngO go BO 80 far tn as 1 to say It I Is IH unfortunate for COI fora a I pettier ettlel of or means to try to sub lub n due that amount of ot desert d ert roll Foi One OI of oC these men el Is n a Chicago er el who IH II deeply Interested In II tho colo problem Ho declares that 20 O acres are quite for Cor a 1 home II n that locality He 10 Insists that alfalfa and cows arc the surest money moneymakers mone makers for the settler leter of or small moans Kach acre of oC alfalfa will 1 support ono cow Ono One good man m n will wil caro of CC CCO 20 O cows COS Hence the thc farm la Is latho tho thing The Chicago man mal has hal faith enough In his Iden to advance money to numerous HO RO that they may 1 get a start They fhe will wil repay repa him In III labor applied U tl other which ho will wi later Inter sub divide and Fell tel to other small settlers Creameries vI bo ho necessary nr to tako the tho product of these small Amal farms Tim hn Chicago man will wi build the as fast taKI nN ni requited It I Is II n most experiment both In its Is economic Its sociological aspects U I will wil bo ho Interesting to com 0 pare the prosperity of oC the p small lunaH farm farmers ers orf with thit of their neighbors who Iho aro trying to til from 15 to 30 times its much land It will wil be hI Interesting again to see how these are ablo ahlo to succeed with wih capital to be bc repaid by 1 devoting n part of or their time to 10 tho cultivation of oC other land Per haps the th experiment exp will furnish n a good Ier 1 deal of or light for COl the tho problem of or making Iod homes hOe for tor poor pOl men In tho desert Tho Chicago makes no 10 pre pr to philanthropy It I Is purely a n business proposition with him h I Ho fe thinks tho offers i sc e and promise a to return a reason rol Hut In th the meantime the nation Is Its IH Und by b 1 lalon It to tu ba ho up UJ In II big IH blocks by hy I who will 1 Inter f dl out Olt to home homemakers makers or CI to syndicates which are n 10 making s And 11 so It will i unfit III UK th I 1 I I present land Inn lawn arn repealed t in III favor of oC a I true a v provision It I Is II claimed that tho des P PIt cit It land net cnn can bo h enforced Ira In every cel western state has hns thon that It generally cannot hut oven In thol h re It can be or 01 where Us IH provisions nit al compiled with wih In good goo II faith an nn abnormal amount of ot land Is allowed tho th It I there has ever eel been heen a II law which operated I ed 1 for tOl yearn 1111 with wih no n legitimate O I for COI It Is tho desert land but Its It I repeal r pal even nt a this late Inte date ull be le a n boon to American home seekers WILLIAM I V 1 |