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Show b ON THE WEST SIDE. The editor took a trl.n over tlie wes: and north tract thU week and found the farmers all busy ami contented. Some t!ir-Mh;ng Is ,r!rg done, a g.wil ninny farmers Rre sticking their p,rln nnd other are cuttius ..heir grain. There Is sCII a gooj deal of i;i;in to cut, principally osts, thoui;! tlie'e U i s!l!l con:tld,rab'e wheat uii'iit. Most o' this will bo cut ror fodJer, unJ if prlfi lor hay ni an hlj;l ' they ere last sjirlng as much or more will be rcn'lxed :hls way as If there wan ylcl l of fcra'n. Hitmuih Minister Minis-ter has his grain all threshed anj his new graluery u well filled wl:!i fine looking he:it nnd bailey. I la wou'.d have had more barley h id nut sumo nililnlght thief tmuVt off a let from his field befoie he cou'd get It to the g-alnery. lie started plowlnj; preparatory prepar-atory to piit'lng 1 0 icro next season, 1 art of It In nlalfa. J. J. Clark ha. a bumper crop and i!l pro'iahly threih ?.(W) bushels of wheat. H. II. Thompson Thomp-son has all of his grain ct icked and will probably get eu nu' i off hU 120 to half pay for the Imd, which is pretty goot, conquering that the liuid was In bnnh a year ago. A. J. I'rltchc t It p'.ow'.ng and leveling bis 100 acres and will put It all In next season. Ho plans on putt'ng In 20 lures In ulfal.'a and aUo putting out an orchard. Ian ! Is somes hat sandy and there seems no nan m why he should tiot ruiro good fruit. He alxo expects to bul'.d a bunjulow In the spring sotiiethitig differed: from anything around here, and we hope others will fo'low his exuiipie. Cuns'deriible building is going on all over the tract. A. Ackerman Is putting hliiie!f up a brlek Iio.hc. Nearly everybody lias built a substantial sub-stantial grainery, J. Tugg'.es hps the brick on band for a new boice, and neatly everybody is planning uddlt'ons o." Imprnvemenis. Coming borne we passed seven loids ot lumber going to different 1 ar'.s of the tract, all of which Indicate a prosperous condition. condi-tion. Tho new brlek school house rear M out ton's Is ready for the ro;if and sehoi-l was s'srted In the neat frame school house on the townslte this week, with Mrs. Cronholm as teacher. There die about 30 pupils, but :he number will be Increased next month. Of course, everybody has n:t in j Jo a success, but enough have been successful suc-cessful to prove that this co.m'ry Is all right. We know of no par' of the West where land of equal fertility, so near to market, so ow In pr ce, anJ with to many advant.mes where an Intelligent anJ Industrious farmer can be so certiin of making a success right from the first year as he can right here. The failure or partial failures come from only two things. Hither the farmer failed to get bis crop plan:ed In time or It was not properly Irrigated. This may be because be-cause he did not have his land properly prop-erly leveled or he did not have his ditches or headgates constructed right There Is very little ' this Und that does not require a little fresno work, though we have seen no Irrigated Irri-gated country more level than this. One can plow and plant almost any old way and If the grain Is properly Irrigated It will make a crop. Um, no matter how carefully you pli and phnt, if yo.i do not gel it rrlgated properly you can't get harvest. One can be bdly footed It. thinking heir land Is level. It looks level when plowed, but when the water gets on It there are hollow places hete and h'gh places there an! only part of the crop Is properly watered. Itetter get an engineer to make a contour map of your farm snd then yo.i will kn.j exactly where tne high and low places are. You can get more satisfaction off of ten acres we'.l watered than 80 that Is only part'y Irrigated. There is probably no farmer who has made a auccesful harvest this year who would sell out for less than $100 an acre. He certainly could no: take $100 and get land lth cual advantages ad-vantages In any part of the west. Ltnd not as good 3S this, where there Is more wind, a poor domestic water supply anl farther from market Is felling In Idaho for $10 per acre. Mr. l'ritchct. says a man can make more In the long run here on 40 acres o' alfalfa than be cm from the same amount of orange orchard In California Califor-nia with much lc?s risk and work. He thinks Callfornls Is nn place for a farmer. It has a fine climate, but a mm raa't live on c'.ima'e a'one. When we consider that Isnd cm still be bought here for $i0 per acre It would seem that land seekers only need to kno of th sdvantages we offer to come flocking In. |