Show oi 1 IRRIGATED LAND THE BEST forts F orts con concede side it Is the lived ail arf t longest fertility and in pro pm irrigation la in almost tory itself as old aa as hta it was known kno wu with and used profit by the egyptians y rivers nile amazon the ube ganges and dan have all furnished turn abed their of liquid help quota for or mans malls but b U t never in the enrichment has irrigation history of the world petus aa as in recent received such an im mankind ala n kind has year years that it Is better awakened to have bave to the fact act I 1 rain one a own right at his door dont the kind that drench him to the te his skia or oak soak land so as to stop nearly all work on the farm for or days and time it days at a la is now known that a farm farni er can by simply opening 9 eleice up a gate let juet just the th e right city of water on his h Is land quan tin the flow himself regulating need tor for the crops that tha t a maximum or those that need a minimum of moisture this 1 Is the very best kind ot of rain and the farm er controls it at sit will without the attendant discomforts of the old time tin ne lightning and sputter putter and the thun ders roar soil elberts rightly concede chatir that ir righted land Is the longest lived as to fertility and productiveness the reason being that the water from ir canals contain the same ele ments as are found in the eoll soil itself acting at all I 1 times as a natural fer ter clizer plenty of water ater from a well supplied irrigation canal good soli soil the right climate and sunshine days out of the of the year are a mighty hard combination to beat in hawaii water for irrigation pur osee poses Is lifted goo 1 yet landing standing that enorton enor tou expense farming in that country pay per cent more per acre than in illinois lili indiana iowa and kansas and fully per cent more per acre than in the new england states li the growing season 1 Is three months in colorado only days in which to plant cultivate and harvest one crop the balance of the year the farmer armer may be up to his neck in snow yet irrigated land in that state that so far has lav r fit f it a plowshare is bringing up to 00 4 over per acre because the adjoining and land already under cultivation haa has demonstrated ita its worth over most of the north states the unite united states government has expended large sums of public money locating irrigation systems to bring arid lands under the plow what N hat would appear as high prices price 8 have been charged settlers for those same lands and they have bad had hard bar d sledding with perhaps six months of non producing weather yet with all that the northwest north sest has become one of the nations great storehouses preying beyond question the value of irrigation |