Show IRRIGATED FARM IN THE EAST Never Thought of Except for Truck N Gardens and Green Houses Joke Houses Joke as Compared to West What are the lessons of irrigation farming to the east It is 11 years since I left the west to reside permanently permanently permanently perma perma- in the east and In those 11 years there have been at least four years when drought seriously affected farm values in the east Yet the east has never thought of Irrigation except tot tor truck gardens and green houses writes Agnes Laub In American Re Review Review view of Reviews The cast east has plowed along in the same old furrow It was plowing In 1700 1400 To construct water reservoirs for Cor the east would be a joke compared to what Is being done in inthe inthe inthe the west for water Is always plentiful ful at some time of the year In the east and the contour of hills lends to natural reservoirs Even without Irrigation Irrigation irrigation ir Ir- storage one is constrained to ask ash what would be the result if the he east right at the door of Its markets markets mar mar- lets adopted the irrigation farmers farmer's methods Long ago the east gave of Its manhood and Its means for the wInning winning win wIn- ning of the west The day may be at hand when the west youthful and buoyant and perhaps even bumptious will bring back some return for that old od obligation to the east The west has been reclaimed Isn't it time for somebody to launch the evangel of reclaiming reclaiming reclaiming re re- re- re claiming the east |