Show ALBERTA FARM I BAFFLES DROUTH Irrigation Pinup Quenches Thirst of Oats Grass vr Wealth Is Won on Calgary Alberta Sept No S- S No o drama in farming Who he said so Here Is a a. hay and oats stor story as thrilling as ns a film fUm romance Arid And Bill Dill Hart or Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las Jas Fairbanks F couldn't have havo played the tho hero In moro more dashing dashing- style than J. J E. E Jett a plain Alberta farmer Jett owns a acre ranch twenty miles from Taber on tho the Belly Deily river In the tho southern part of tho the province Early In Jf June he ro rode roo lo over o his farm Ills His broad l hay meadows were lush and arid green reen His Ills acro acre oat field gave o a promise of or a a. hea heavy harvest Then Ihen the tho drought came camu no rain fell for Cor weeks Late In July Jett roJo rode over oer his farm again The hot sun had scorched his hay hal and nd oats oat to a no crisp Ho lie thought of oC turning his cattle into his hili oats But what's tho the use hoI ho said sahI Those oats arent aren't fit It even cven for or I pasture He wn was face to face with trag tragedy raged and his farm Carm labor Jabor for tho the year car seemed a total loss Jott Jett lives Jives not far from front the region under un irrigation from rose tho the L dam damn In the tho sun dried y countr-y country about them the farms arms under tinder this system of oC unfailing water r supply were smiling binding oases Everywhere E were Ci deep with grain holding promise of ot bumper crops Water Water Yater If Jett Jelt anI only could get et water on his land ho m might ht avert dis dis- dis asterIo aster Ive o on one chance In a thousand ho horold raid rold but Ill I'll take It Ho lie telegraphed to a a. firm in Calgary Calgary Cal Cal- gary ar miles aWa away Rush flush irrigation tion Uon pump gallons capacity a minute pipes machinery and antI full hi hJo hi tn sc ro i bu dU Tho The outfit arrived at the railway sta sta- tion five fIc miles Crom his farm a as aM QU quick quick- Ick l ly h as an nn express train ln could coull deliver It it Jett Jolt rented two motor trucks and antI took It home He set hl his pumping ma ma- chinery at once on the banks of Belly river and connected It with a un traction engine Ho He hired a crew of oC twenty men an and set act them plowing ir ir- rl atron ditches across his ha hay and oat oaf kids fields Gradually the plows tho the land but when the sun set the work ork was oot not finished Jett Jelt kept his J plows s going by 11 moonlight It Jt was wa's al almost ai- ai most mOlt midnight before JIb hla private ir irI irrigation ir- ir rl atlon system was completed I Then he tUrn turned d on his pump Streams of water wore were soon gurgling through the oats and flooding out over o the ha hay m meadows The Tho life giving currents Current were cre to the thc parched fields like a spring of or water to a man dying of or thirst In Ina a desert Jett sa says sas he could almost h hear ar the rime glad slad earth smack Its lips Harvest time camp came Old Did Jett have ha havea haen a n. crop to harvest Well eli did dIJ lie he he Iii His oats averaged ion bushels bushel to tho acre If rr y you ou dont don't believe c It It J Jett ett From orom his meadows s ho he cut 00 tons of ot fine hA hay With oats at lt 90 cents a bushel an al 1 hay huy nt at 35 u R ton hi his cr crop P was vas worth His pump and labor had cost Ho figures his profits prot- prot Its at S1 |