Show from the me western standard dp and continue di from i kw number 36 I 1 I 1 winter irrigation y ex MISSION DE SAN JOSE sept sath ag editor of western standard 1 some of the benefits arising from ix amter inter irrigation 11 may thus be summed up st you are serre ears og of getting etting your lands wet rain or no rain I 1 ad you can water wafer you your lands before planting with one fourth the labor that you would have to spend in watering after planting ad the water will remain iong long enough in the soil to dissolve the gasses concertin converting them loto into food for the plants and aud drive worms and ad bugs to the surface where they them will be destroyed by the birds and fowls also causing the larva and eggs of those insects to perish thus comparatively free ing your soils from those thosa troublesome creatures and allowing you to put your lands in perfect order in which they will remain until the crop matures it is the habit of too many so soon as their crop is taken ot oft to raise their gates stop their windmills and pumps take away their dams and otherwise labor to prevent their lands from getting t wet allowing all the water however I 1 rich cit sit it may be to pass by and their lands suffer for food then ungratefully ask god to send rains and fruitful seasons and dud remove the barrenness of the soil some are livi living ng near wet weather streams that contain water six months of the year and then become dry such should be like the miner m make a k e use of it while it is to ba be had and fill n natures at ur e m reservoir so that your trees shrubs plants and crops may flourish during the approaching dry weather when if this course was not pursued they would become withered stunted and perhaps killed before it would be in your power to afford them any relief some will run out during a shower to prevent a small stream that may have concentrated in a path or road from entering their garden or grounds that may muy be ba so 0 parched and the vegetation thereon that grows thereon so starved that it was an eyesore eye sore to its owner instead ofa ora of a pleasure such should pause and consider the amount of vegetable food contained in water collected from the surface of the ground also that all sweet voi water ater however pure contains the same though in a less degree and imparts it to the soil it passes through for one to know that his lands are wet fifteen inches deep at the time lime of ting to keep it so wet while the crop is growing and then expect to reap an abundant harvest is unreasonable for all cultivators know that most kinds of vegetation root much deeper if they can grass roots have been bean traced in our neighboring wells twenty feet in depth neither ought it to be sufficient for one to know his lils orchard lands are wet thirty inches in depth at the close of the rainy ramy season beason nor that he can give the trees a slight wetting welling during the growing season nothing short of a thorough soaking once in twelve months and keeping the land in good is sufficient and that ought to be done early in the spring in the winter or late in the fall at which time lime nature will do it if she do it at all I 1 do not wish 0 b o be understood in this communication muni cation as discarding summer irrigation but leave that to be argued by able hands respectfully JOHN M 9 0 in your last months Drawer drawers 1 2 writes an old country friend you had a story of a preacher in new england whose salary is twenty five dollars a year and half the fish he can catch it reminded me of one of 0 our scotch clergy of the established church who met one of his parishioners who was behind hand in his dues and had paid him in poor grain besides I 1 william said the minister you must bring better grain I 1 cant sell it it is so bad its just what the land produces sir and I 1 hae bothin else to gie gle but gaoat then you are a bad farmer william you farm better tut tut sir no civil ill no take that off your hany ban I 1 attend your kirk an you gie us just what your head produces and I 1 dinna fing find faut I 1 dinna tell you that you are a bad preacher although you tell me I 1 aln alo a bad F farmer armr lut but if I 1 was to ste step p into n to tb the e free kirk meeting house I 1 might g get et b baith alth bigger mea sure and better corn if take all the weak corn an caff out of your sermons ill lii put my roy corn once mair throy the banners fan ners the minister told william he lie was very impertinent im but found no more fault with his bis corn harpers mag |