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Show SUCCESS IN SMALL GARDENS Provides Necessary Vegetables for Use During Winter and Forage for the Family Cow. U:y F. H. NFCWIXU r!rnr Unltrd Htnti-e lCdliimatlon Forvlce.) The best condition for success in ( tic arid r glutis is one w here a small acreage oji each farm can be irrigated and intensely cultivated and where a variety of crops, especially those consumed con-sumed on the farm and in the homo, can be raised. This small area, rven if no more than a good-si.ed garden patch, la the citadel of the home. It provides potatoes and other vegetables vegeta-bles for use during tbo winter, and possibly some alfalfa or other forage for tho family cow. It Insures tho permanence of the family. Outside of thin area there may be a hundred or several hundred acres under cultivation cultiva-tion by arid agriculture without the artificial application of water. This larger tract of dry land may yield a generous living, alternate portions be-log be-log cropped each year with reasonable success and with occasional bumper crops. Here on the dry land Is where the larger profits may tie ntnde with a relatively small Investment. It is this combination of Irrigated land with 'arger areas of dry lands on which there I nn Intelligent application of dry fanning principles which has enabled en-abled hundreds of farmers to succeed while their nclhl ors, depending upon ono crop and trying to utilize all of the dry land each year, huvo failed miserably. There are now available to every irnn a number of publications giving clearly the principles of arid agriculture. agricul-ture. These have been printed under the auspices of the stato mid federal government and by individuals. There Is no excuse for any man not grasping the fundamentals; but there Is In tho makeup of every pioneer farmer more or less of tho desire to hpeculnte. The rules laid down In tho bonks and tho advlco given him by the agricultural experts seems to bo too exacting; ho wants to try his chance, and believes that with the ravorablo weather then prevailing ho i can run the risk of doing a llttlo less work than called for by tho exports. ' Ho remembers having heard of some . one who mado a success witliout so muih plowing and harrowing; being pressed for time, or money, is puts in his entire area in tho quickest manner pot slide. Last year's results have shown the unwl.-nlom of such n reck-lesi reck-lesi course. Whl'o Instances may be i pointed out where a fair crop has i been attained, the great number of I results serve to emphasize the fact f that It doesn't pny to take chances nnd that a man who proceeds cauti- ously has been tho winner. s Summing up the situation, It may be ; said that last year's failures and suc-- suc-- cesses servo to strengthen the bifif i In tho future of the arid region as a noe for farns and homes for the highest type of intelligent, active and i progressive citizens. |