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Show TCO MUCH WATER ir.JUKIC'JS Competent Judges Declara It Will Cert aa Much to Get It Out as It Did to Get It In. It has been mid by competent Judges, that In time !. Villi coot as much to get water out of tin Irrigated bed Ion as it will to get it Into It. This of course means millions In boiiiu cases and aj'pllt a to vast, nearly level Irrigated ,;.rta more than to quickly (Iralne.l small Irrigated neighborhoods, aaya the Iiaknta Farmer. Many do not know antlili, Bbotit tiila great and even prt cent danger until malaria ma-laria or flckly dying orchards and vines break the terrible truth to them that "nib Irrigation," "aeepage" or hateer It may be called. Is about to take away all they have. Hero la where the "tenderfoot" buyer la the moKt apt to be taken In, and he should be even more careful In looking up hla drainage and water levela than ho la to tee that hla supply of water Is Inexhaustible. In California we once met a man who was excitedly happy becauxe he had Junt purchaxed an extensive ex-tensive vineyard that had water so near the jiurfare that It bore perfectly "without the expense and trouble of ' turning on water at all." This poor fellow did not know that only a few miles from hla purchase thounands of acre of once high priced vineyard and orchard lands were then worthless; some of them being entirely out of sight In a lake, because of this same sub Irrigation of which he was boasting. boast-ing. In most cases when desert lands get "here Irrigation Is no longer needed. need-ed. It Is but a very little way from being ruined by accumulated Irrigation Irriga-tion water. Wise Irrigators everywhere, are now caeful not to saturate their soli, and th more experienced one Is with Irrigation, Ir-rigation, the less water as a rule he uss. Nearly all heavily bearing orchards, or-chards, potnto fields, vineyards, etc., In good hands are watered as nearly as possible at right times and not a particle par-ticle too much regardless of the sup-ply; sup-ply; and then frequent light surface tillage Is resorted to. to keep the moisture mois-ture and let In the air. Just as carefully care-fully as the successful dry farmer does for the same purpose. 1 |