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Show Thrift and ( rnek Water. Kansas City Star. By a combination of thrift and creek water a farmer in Decatur county is becoming wealthy. Ho irrigates HO acres by a reservoir formed by darning up Prairie Dog creek. From the reservoir reser-voir lie runs ditches over the farm and has plenty of water throughout tho year. He has 300 yards of ditches on his place, and last year irrigated sixty acres. Ho had twenty-two acres in potatoes, iind raised S.WO bushels of the largest, finest kind of potatoes. Ho had two and one h.ilf acres of onions, and look 500 bushels olT the land. His corn averaged about forty bushels to tho acre. And tho man who does this is so ignorant that he always calls it "irritating" the ground, which shows that farming has nothing; to do with "eddecatioii." k ' s - |