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Show BUSINESS MANAGEMENT TELLS. Tho boat farmer is tho business busi-ness fnnnertho man who tills his soil and handles his crop with tho samo caroful attention to details, causes and effects that characterizes tho successful man at tho head of a great commercial com-mercial institution or banking establishment. Farming, in the true sonse, is no longer mere slnvery on tho farm. Tho farm is a business institution, and the profession of farming is as ro-spcctablo ro-spcctablo as any phase of com morcc in fact, upon tho farmer depends tho manufacturer, jobber, job-ber, merchant, banker and brok-or. brok-or. Ho is tho source of supply. Tho farmer must, liko tho merchant, mer-chant, study olementa of profit and loss, eliminato causes of loss an increase profitable departments depart-ments and crops. Tho study of dry-farming isj properly a part of the work of i this irrigation congress, as, whilo the engineering problems which you have been discussing are important, a much more im-! portant phase of tho subject is an exact understanding of how to secure tht maximum result; from tho minimum amount ofj wator. Over irrigation Is ,nsj dangerous as under irrigation;! in fact, wo consider it more so. ' Tho plant can use only a certain proportion of food in solution ; more than that becomes detri-1 mental. Tho plant thrives best when it receives only the required-amount of moisture. Excessive Ex-cessive irrigation makes the root bed too wet and too ctild and retards re-tards plant development . - . |