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Show GARDENS IN DRY FARM BELT Where Irrigation Is Used Gardener Can Reap Big Reward From Those Who Grow Big Field Crops. Men who have pumping plants in the dry farming sections, together with a knowledge of gardening, reap a good reward, for they have market at their doors for those who are engaged en-gaged in growing field crops and have not given atlention to this matter. It will be just in an odd year that a garden gar-den will succeed with crops throughout through-out the season under dry farming farm-ing methods, for but few garden gar-den plants are drought-resistant. Melons Mel-ons are so, together Willi tomatoes in the later stage of growth. Beans may he included, and there are no doubt some other kinds. The great bulk, however, of suss, such as lettuce, radishes, rad-ishes, pens, and especially cabbage and other plants that have to be set out need lots of water or they become tough and stringy. Windmills should be used to their highest capacity, both for winter and summer -irrigation, at which time they are far best re-enforced re-enforced by a gasoline engine, even if it be but a small one. The use of hose is all Important to save water from soaking into the ground in unnecessary un-necessary quantity, and this can be home-made if desired, by stitching eight-ounce duck together with a double seam. Such hose should be larger than that more firmly made, to allow a freer flow of water. The ground that is winter irrigated can best be used for spring crops except such as require a high temperature for germination, which can be planted on warm ground only slightly moist and irrigated afterwards. A good degree, of fertility should be established so. that plants can do their best to repay the use of water, and evaporation will be less where somewhat close planting plant-ing is practiced and the ground somewhat some-what shaded. There are very few countries where gardening can be carried car-ried to its highest fruition without extra water, and the dry belt is certainly cer-tainly not one of them. |