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Show The Mainstay of Agriculture, "Agriculture is tho basis of all human industry, mid irrigation is tho mainstay of agriculture. Upon tho arid Innde o; tho weBtenn b supported n population equaling that of the entire country nt present. This can bo accomplished by intensivo and deverfcified agriculture by irrigation. Fewer acres hotter cultivated culti-vated will yield larger returns than a vast nrea thinly scratched out. The full Hignificaueo of tins can be svpptecia-ted svpptecia-ted when it i3 considered that forty-ncre irrigated farms mean four timcn the population that ICO-acre farms will allow. Again, the funnel who has the Mater of tho irrigation ditch at his command com-mand is one of the most independent of men. His crop9 are assured. He de-versifies de-versifies his Operations and produces all himself and family consume, with a surplus, which can bo exchanged for clothing or other necessuiy articles, or money to bo reberved for old age. He is practically free from outsido influences," in-fluences," says tho Irrigation Age. |