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Show LEARN ECONOMY OF CHINESE Twelve Perione, Two Pig&, Donkey and Cow Live Well cn Two and One Half Acre. Not Iouk ao the huid oll'.o nt Washington, iih well, iim the ih imniii' iif of the Interior, the deiiirt inent (if UK-rleulturi' UK-rleulturi' and the head of the Irrlira-Htliili Irrlira-Htliili m r Ice reeeh ed atoriuv h-ttirs of prot-'t-t from everybody un-lir tin-Kuna tin-Kuna dam beraune some people feared the farm unit of the Yuma project wa to he plaeed at 20 acres. When lrofessor KorheH of the rnlversliy of Arizona eontended that L'o acres wmild innke ft bis living for from five to (.. -ii nonpie the farmers there were loud In their content hum that such a thlnt; wii.t linpossltile. In China, lr. F. II KIllK of the State fnlverslty of WlHconsin, found 12 persons, two plus, a donkey and it eow living very well from the production of two and one-half one-half acres. Tin- economy of the Chinese In the treatment of their land Is amazini;, nay h the I .oh AnRcen Times. Although Al-though they have ahutldiiut rainfall they take no chances of iinythliiK less than a perfectly dependable Irrigation system. The whole arable surface o farm hinds In Japan, China and Korea Ih made Into shallow and level hasiiiH which are Irrigated by an infallible system. No matter how much rain falls they ran always turn on the wiv ler from their streams at any hour oi the day or nltlit In any season. Thu liirYrop ever receives Its needed water supply an hour later than such need la perceived. |