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Show IRRIGATED FARMS. The Census Bureau Issues a Bulletin Upon the Subject. Washington, Sept. 15. The ceusus bureau bu-reau Las issued a bulletin upon the general subject of irrigation in the Western states. It is shown that of 124,808 farms enumerated in the arid region in June 1890, 53,584, or 42.13 per cent, contained land on which crops were raised in 1889 by the artificial application ap-plication of water. . The entire area of land irrigated was S,564,416- acres, or 20.72 per cent of the total area. Of the 52,584 irrigated farms, 9.65 per cent of. the total area of the whole number of farms enumerated,, and is about one-half of one per cent of the total 1 land area in the arid region. f j |