Show LITTLE UNEVEN s LAND WORKED so far irrl gators of west have paid no attention to irrigation of rolling ground in recently to a land agent that deals in semi arid land the writer was told that up to the pres ent time little of the rolling land is being irrigated bays H A roberts in farm life ane head of an important educational institution tells aba writer that the chinese think nothing of irrigating alu sides they run their canals around hills with the greatest of perfection what the chinese have done and are doing we also can do we have not yet got to the point ot reducing all our hillsides hill sides to irrigated areas but como of our common farmers long ago learned how to irrigate hillsides hill sides even when the water had to be pumped from a river tar below one of them made canvas hose that he could carry in any direction W pumped the water from the river by means of his windmill and the tank on tha windmill was the factor that gave the pressure to the water in the canvas hose when be bad occasion to water the crops on the top of the hill he alm ply carried the end of the hose to that point and turned on the water the rest ot the work was done by dl the flow of the water in the furrows this latter work requires some ex per lenco to insure its being done in the best possible manner another farmer that was a devotee of irrigation made his furrows by means of logs dragged over the ground after he had plowed it it the logs were dragged over the soil when it was still moist a glazed surface resulted that prevented the water flowing out except at the desired points this was a makeshift in irrigation ditching but served fairly well where fields on hillsides hill sides are annu ally plowed the problem Is a difficult one in a land where labor Is high priced when such lind Is to be placed under a system of irrigation it Is better to have the land in some permanent crop EO that the irrigation furrows can remain from year to year and the levels that have been found one year may be available the next the chinese are signally success ful in this kind of irrigation pally because they depend on hand labor and such labor need not als the main features ot the alon system if americans find it necessary to ir algate their hillsides hill sides they will doubt less also find tt necessary to use handwork instead of machine work in the cultivation of the ground thus used the writer believes in introducing irrigation wherever possible whether the landbo arid or not as a crop insurance su but be believes that the lem can be worked out but slowly tho american farmer Is wedded to the use of machines and will be slow to abandon them perhaps some bright inventor will find a way to als tribute water to the hillside crops and yet retain the methods we now employ |