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Show It is not uncommon for these small fruit farms to 'sell for five hundred, one thousand, and even two thousand dollars per acre; nor is it uncommon to receive one" hundred, two hundred' or even five hundred dollars per acre as revenue from the crops raised in a single year. Such instances, however, how-ever, arc about as rare as a hundred-bushel hundred-bushel yield of corn on an eighty-acre eighty-acre field or fifty bushels o'f wheat on a fifty-acre field. There is plenty of money to be made on these irrigated irri-gated lands, but it is made by men who select wisely, who have 'secured the water they have bought and paid for, have had the advantage of markets, mar-kets, and have farmed with the highest high-est intelligence. Farming under irrigation is quite as sure as any other kind of farming, but the cbnditions of success -will have fo bo : observed- nild-compiled with here as anywhere-else.- |