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Show LIFE OUT ON THE IRRIGATION FARM Washington. Pec. 19.-Lite on a government Irrigation far Ib not the be'd of roses which manv picture It tobe, DicecjprMowjJLof the. r'eclama,-, Hon ectv1co points out in a paper prepared for him by tne Smithsonian institution. 'This awakening to the fact that irrigation has Its thorny side." he declares, de-clares, "some times comes a6 a startling start-ling shock, sufficient to discourago all hut the most enthusiastic, and tho more faint hearted seek farther for the promised land. "Those who remain soon learn that success must he secured by. subduing the soil, getting It in good condition, applying water day and night and pcrhnps all nlsht. wading around In tho mud. or ondurlng the heat of tho long days of brilliant sunshine and the aeompanving dust of the arid regions tb troubles with neighbors over division or water, the possible scepngo followed by crop losses or ruin from alkali. As a consequence a considerable part or the first settlers set-tlers on every irrigation system pell out or relinquish their homesteads and seek other fields." The most difficult problem still remain for the reclamation service, he says It has successfully Fol"d the engineering and business problems, prob-lems, but thoco of "dealing with the Fettlers, gMng them sound adlce and at the same time collecting from them the cost of the works, the dealing deal-ing with tho human as opposed to the physlc'al elements, are far more difficult than those of engineer construction con-struction on or related business management-" ' |