Show 4 I 1 NEED OF irrigation feasible and necessary in middle middie western states australian expert declares it would largely increase profits of farm new and improved methods are demanded that irrigation Is as feasible and necessary in the middle west aa as in other parts of 0 the united states for the enlargement of crop production and farm profits Is the opinion ot of prof S mcintosh director of irrigation tor for south australia who while in chicago a few days ago was in ter viewed professor mcintosh takes the post tion that nothing but intensive tarin farm ing and business methods will save the agricultural situation land Is ad avancing so rapi afy tn value arue ut it takes capital to engage in tanning farming better methods of cultivation and marketing are earnestly advocated by this expert who spends his time in study and experiments in order to advance the scientific aspect of agri culture in his country the growth of cities here and the general expansion of the united states have resulted in high priced land said professor mcintosh that with the growing cost of labor makes farming a business proposition it requires capital to get started right on a farm and then there have to be business principles to bring a return on the capital in the middle west farmers find the cost of production so greatly increased that they must move to cheaper land or adopt anten I 1 live principles r Inci ples that Is to agrue tor for dala dairying 9 is as for tor grain raising farmers in other parts of the world are learning how to accomplish as much on forty or fifty acres as tor for merly they did on one hundred in this locality they have to grapple with the question of summer feeding owing to successive droughts and when it comes to raising an abend ance of orage forage crops as well as the winter winters s supply of grain vegetables and hay they need to consider arri gallon gation in the modern aspect of at af fairs it will not do to let crop rals ing go on hazard it Is necessary to make as much of a certainty of it as possible it Is not necessary to wait tor for leg isolation Islat lon to a water supply I 1 believe that each state ought to assist the cause of irrigation in some way perhaps not on the extensive scale of the general government but in afford tog ng legislation calculated to protect ill all interests and showing just what the individual has a right to do but I 1 would advise land owners to go ahead and irrigate their farms as a private enterprise in many cases it will be feasible for or a number of individuals to coop co op erate and in that way there will be a saving A man should provide tor for the cost of a water supply on his place just as much as tor for a barn or any other improvement that Is considered indispensable we have demonstrated in hun deeds of cases in australia that the ordinary gasoline engine will pump all the water needed on fifty to acres it Is practicable to store the water in an open cement reservoir at some elevated point on the farm or a tank holding 1000 gallons or more may be constructed tor for the same purpose and filled either by windmill or engine intensive farming has become necessary not merely tor for individual prosperity but as an economic p prin r in ciple ot of worldwide world wide importance B bet et ter farming on any plan or theory may be called intensive but an as water supply should be the first step toward that end it has taken farmers of the central states many years to learn the importance of sum mer feeding to take the place of in adequate pasturage they now n need eed to laudy the value of soiling crops and a successful system of double crop ping much of the land wasted in pasturage during dry summers may be made profitable it if devoted to tor for a age ge 0 or r fodder crops with irrigation and intensive farming smaller places will do and the progressive man will cot not only get started on a smaller in vestment of capital but will prosper much better than he could under the old system professor has experiment ed a great deal with double cropping this Is comparatively easy he says in the production of vegetables where a crop Is developed in from four to eight weeks with grain forage or fodder it Is a more difficult matter the rhe soil Is constantly losing its sup ply of nitrogen potassium end and chorus some of these more important crops making a heavy drain on the nutrients in the land crop rotation and liberal supplies of barnyard fer ter are the first essentials it Is an excellent plan to sow rye and clover together in the fall to provide an early fodder crop the follow ing summer this may be cut about the at of june atte which the land makes good pasturage for a few weeks it if the growth of clover Is heavy it will pay to keep that field tor for hay bay the next season but it if it Is light it ought to be plowed up about the 1st of august and sown to mil let this will add a fine lot of hay to the winters supply and the seed seef Is immensely valuable tor for poultry feeding fodder corn could be planted after the rye and clover are taken off in june it if that Is preferable to millet either b corn or millet may follow ear early ay iy 4 he the same season |