| Show irrigation sunday nights rain a veritable of gold to the husbandman by the wealth it contained for abo BOI L each precious drop that fell was like BO much gold going to natures mint and it will return coined into the blessings of agricultural life tho farmers rejoice because of such timely favors of nature and it gives as aurance of a bounteous harvest this jeason irrigation may bring forth vegetation it is a means of satisfying the thirsty crops of tho farmer but at it is only an artificial accomplishment and can never answer alio full demands of nature espic ally do we notice this fact in the early spring each farmer that arjes to force matters almonr by early irrigation mat invariably regards retards the greti of cereals tue fresh snow waters from the mountain tops seem always to chill the delicate fibrils and retard their as simulating force and at throes these tender little parts are actually killed and crops assume a yellowish appearance tacking that healthy dark gleea color eo indicative dica tive of growth this is one of the results of early irrigation and too much water will also have the same tendency showers of rain sear coly bring about these injurious features as wo seldom have too much rain is one thing and the drops seem to gather from the atmosphere while falling an amount of oxygen or of latent heat which is diffused when the drops the groaned g of great advantage to vegetation then again when irrigating the water almost instantly soaks into the fibers and tender fibrils while the rain gradually penetrates from the surface giving time for the small organs of as simulation to contract a to meet the requirements of the plant so it can readily bo deou why farmers rejoice at the springtime rains and prefer them to irrigation |
