Deseret Evening News | 1906-09-24 | Page 4 | Profits of Irrigated Farms

PROFITS OF IRRIGATED FARMS Boston Herald The bureau in charge of at the tho lion tion development of the national do domain doI domain main I aln has hu reached tho the conclusion that small farms running from forty tort to toone toone one hundred acres alre are ure tho the most mOlt ad od advantageous advantageous being within tho the ability of ot settlers setlers of ot moderate means and an creating comparatively cly thickly settled fettled neighborhoods where hero all oil the rWan advantages of social life may bo be easily main maintained Doubt has hall been pressed expressed of or the capacity of such farms tann for tor yielding a I comfortable support This Is 1 a 1 mat matter matter mattot ter tot to which Prof of ot tho the Mon lIon Montana tana experiment station nation has given shen much muth attention He tells of ot a CL former farmer r living near foreman Bozeman In that state who M last fall out a crop ot of bushels of ot wheat per acre acro tram train a farm Ho Ito obtain obtained ed Cod for tor his hui wheat itS 15 per aero acre The ex fX expense pense panso was as 10 p pr per r arro arre leaving a n riot net I profit of 41 M from forty acres acre ncr