Show 1 I W i LITTLE UNEVEN LAND UND WORKED so far par irrigators Irrl gators of went west havo have paid no attention to irrigation of rolling ground 44 in peaking speaking recently to a land agent that deals it in semiarid land the writer was told that up to the pres pron out nt time little of the rollan land la Is being irrigated cars says 11 II A rob erta arts la in 2 tm vm life the head of 0 an important educational institution tolls tails the writer that the chinese think nothing 0 ot Ir ing hill biden sides they run their canals around hills with the greatest of per faction what the chinese have dono done and are dolub we aico also can do we have havo i not yet got to the point of reducing all our hillsides hlll aldes to irrigated areas but nome of our aidmon farmers long aen ago im learned ned how to irrigate hillside hillsides even when the water bad had to be pumped from a river far below one of them made canvas hose that he could cou 14 carry in any direction iio lie pumped the water from the river by means of his windmill and the tank on the windmill was the factor that gave the pressure to the water in the canvas hose when he had bad occasion to water the crops on the top of the hill he simply carried the end of the hose to that point and turned on the water the rest of the work was don done by dl directing the flow of the water in the tur furrows rown this laiter lacter work requires some experience z peri ence to insure its being done to IV the best possible manner another farmer that was a devotee devotes of Irrig irrigation atlon made his furrows by means of logs dragged over the ground after he had ploy plowed red it IL if it the logs lots were dragged over the soil moll when it was stirl moist a glazed surface result vii t that prevented the water flowing out except at the desired points this was a makeshift in irrigation ditching but erred served fairly well wall where fields on hillsides are anno sunup ally la weil the problem Is a difficult one in a land where tabor labor la to high priced when such land Is to be place 1 under a system of irrigation it Is letter to have the land in some permanent crop so that the irrigation furrows cai eat remain from year to year and the levels that have been found one year may be available the next the chinese are signally success suc ful in this kind of irrigation principally because they depend on hand labor and such labor need not die disi i the main features of the irrigation system it americana americans nd lyd it necessary to lr fr brigate their ies they will doubtless also find nace necessary to use handwork instead of machine work in the cultivation of the ground thua thus used I 1 the writer believes in introducing irrigation wherever e whether tho the land be arid or not as a crop ini ln eu su rance but he believes that the problem can be worked out but slowly the american farmer Is wedded to the use of machines and will be low blow to abandon them perhaps Per haper some soma bright inventor will find a way to distribute water to the hillside crops and yet retain the methods ye re now employ |