Show INTENSIVE FARMS PAY weal system practiced almost exclusively by truck farmers of canary islands how they irrigate the truck farmers or of tho the canary ls is says saya consul william 1 K kitches Tone teneriffe riffe in consular laports Hn RA ports enga engage go in intensive farming fanning almost exclusively as tho file farms average but two to alvo aero acre in fix size rarely more tho th 0 largest farm in tho the islands to Is about ive five fane gadas the ani agada varies in the different islands being usually a little less than an acre plowing is dono done with primitive plows consisting of a rough hewn pole or tongue to io which Is fastened nn an iron pointed stick drawn by oxen these plows are not so easily injured by too tt 0 o largo large loose rooks rocks below the surface of the soil us as steel blades would bo be and tho the low cost of labor about 60 50 cents american a day makes tho the demand for a modern time almo saving caving implement slight tho the result obtained with this method of cultivation aro are excellent and tho the appearance of a newly plowed finca farm Is equal to that of tho the best beat english and european market gardens the irrigation which tho the average yearly rainfall of fifteen inches makes imperative Is supplied on those these miniature farms by the use usa or of hand water cans the larger farms have bavo cement lined stone some of which havo have a capacity of several thousand aa nd gallons these thesa ara filled from permanent streams by cement troughs these loads leads are economically provided by forming cement grooves on the tops of the stone fences which separate all the farms and are often used in dividing bIll hillside side farms into ter races A may produce bushels of bananas a year six hundred kilos pounds of seed potatoes are required to plant the same area the field being five to twenty times the amount amo planted one and a halt half to two pounds of tomato seed will plant a fa and yield to COO sixty pound eases cases |