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Show of Irrigation In the southwest He has blmsolf put through great private Irrigation Ir-rigation projects at Barstow, Texas, and has been a prim mover In Inducing Induc-ing the federal government to build the system which will make fertile over three million acres of land, once a desert. It Is on these government tracts that the old isolated farm house is to become be-come a thing of the past. "The government Is laying out towns every five miles," he said. "Thus no farm will be much more than two and one half miles from a town. The farms will be small, ten to forty acres, and the farming intensive. Under these circumstances the farmers farm-ers will live in towns of 1,500 to 2.000 people, enjoying all the benefits of urban life schools, churches and social so-cial life. At the same time they win be within an easy reach of their farms as Is tho average Chlcagoan of his business. "A tide from the city to the country coun-try has already sc-t in. Many college graduates have chosen farming pn Irrigated tracts for their life work." Mr Barstow said that the coming congress would be the greatest gathering gather-ing of its kind ever held. Over 2.500 delegates from forty states and territories terri-tories and twenty foreign nations are .expected. HEW SOCIAL ORDER FOR FARMERS PICTURED BAnaTOW 8AYS CITY LIFE 18 POSSIBLE POS-SIBLE FOR AGRICULTURISTS. Instead of Living on the Frm, Town Five MUes Apart, May Be Built ' In Farming Districts for Homes, Chicago. Feb. 1. A new social order fr farmers Is pictured by George E. Barstow of Barstow, Tpxss, president "f the International Irrigation con- I Kresp, who is in Chicago on business ! connected with the big gathering to be ' heM in Seattle next summer. - Gr!t tracks of land where the farmers will mt live on the lan.1. hut In towns, from which they will hasten by th aid of fast horses or In automobiles,' or interurban cars to cultivate the soil was the new thing which the Irrigation expert declared would soon br-eom a fact dr. Barstow Is known as the father |