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Show SOME CAPITAL IS REQUIRED Irrigation Also Must Have Man of Skill, Experience, Energy, Good Health and Strength. Farming under Irrigation is a highly specialized venture, requiring skill, experience, ex-perience, energy and good health and strength. To take over a piece of raw land and improve and develop it for crop production requires years of effort. ef-fort. Meanwhile the irrigator must support his family, besides providing himself with the necessary tools and constructing his buildings. Unless a man has been able to save up $1,300 or $2,000, or has as much at his command, com-mand, the government does not now advise him to undertake to cultivate an irrigated farm. "If we define a poor man as one who has absolutely no money or credit," says the government, govern-ment, "it is nearly impossible for a man of this kind successfully to handle an irrigated farm, even if it be given him. ... A man may not be rich, but he must be a good farmer to make a success under irrigation and to meet his payments. Successful irrigation irri-gation means constant cultivation and unremitting toil intelligently applied." |