Show IRRIGATED GATED LAND THE BEST experts concede it la it the longest i lived as to fertility and in pro i irrigation Is almost as old as hla tory itself it was known and used with proult by the the iho livers vers nile amazon kni azon gauges and van din she ubo have hao ull till furnished their quota or of liquid help hell for foi mans but tit lit tho the history of the world has litigation irrigation received elved such an all impetus as aa in ili recent years mankind lias has aalon aalonen ed to tho the fact that it Is botter to have one olorf own rain rahi right tit at lita his door the kind that dont drench him to the skin shin or 01 soak its his land so as aa tu to stop nearly all work on oil tile tho fill fat ill lui fol days alays and days at a 14 time it I 1 Is i now know knon it that a a farm AI or an all by ply IlIg up a shelve gate let just the right quo n atty or suiter on OIL his land regulating tho tha ilow how himself for tho the crops clops that need n wilmuin mil or filose that need it of ino mol stute this athla Is the very best kind of rain and the fian bartyl or 01 controls conti it at will without tile attendant of tile tho old alma lightning and sputter and the kuun dors dorb roar loar soil experts rightly lightly concede chatir righted ilga teil land Is in the longest lived as aa to fertility and the reason boang that tho the water ahei atei from irrigation canals canala con contain tit alie saino elements as aro are found in tile eoll boll itself acting at till alt times as a natural for ti lizer plenty of water front from a well supplied irrigation canal good soil the right and day out ont of thu the of tile year are arc it a mighty haul hard combination to beat in ill hawaii water vater for foi irrigation purposes P 08 la Is lifted feet feat yot yet notwithstanding that enoi moua expense farming fanning in that country pays per 61 cent more inoru per pel nore acre than in illinois indiana indian j iowa and kansas and fully per cont cent inore por per aero acre than in v A the now new england states aw 1 A it I the growing season Is three months in ili colorado Coloia do only days in which h to plant cultivate and harvest liar veat ono crop the balance of the year tho the farmer fanner may inay be up to his neck in enow allow yot yet irrigated land in ili that state that so far has baa never felt a plowshare Is bringing tit up to and over per pel acre because the adjoining ai land already under cultivation has demonstrated its worth over most of the northwestern states the united states government has haa expended large of public morley money locating irrigation systems to bring arid lands under the plow what would appear as high prices have been charged settlers for those same lands and they have had hard sledding with perhaps six montha ot of non producing weather yet with all that tile the northwest has become became one of the nations groat great storehouses proving beyond question tho the value of irrigation |