Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-06-28 | Page 2 | Learn the Duty of Water

LEARN. THE DUTY OF WATER Proper Time to Irrigate and Amount Depends Largely on Local Conditions Con-ditions of Each Farm. No one can become a successful irrigator ir-rigator until he learns the duty of water wa-ter and this cannot be best understood under-stood until one is familiar with the principles of dry farming. As to the control of water all that is necessary is a strong active man, a pair of water-proof boots, a good shovel and a good head of water and the laws of gravity will do the rest. Successful crops can only be secured by the proper prop-er amount of and the continuous even distribution of moisture and for this reason time, money, crops and disappointment disap-pointment can be saved by proper leveling lev-eling of the soil prior to planting. Irrigation by cultivation is better than irrigation by irrigation, because the duty of humus and water are correlated. cor-related. The proper time to irrigate and how and the number of irrigations depends upon the local conditions of each farm and the crop raised. Some soils will need frequent and copious Irrigation and some none at all.