| Show GETTING USE OF UNDER UNDERFLOW FLOIA man wh who 0 has subterranean supply of water in easy pumping reach has many advantages the moro more on one a examines into the irrigation problems of tho the nest iest tile the more anor deeply he impressed with the adian advantages possessed b the mill mail n abo ho has a subterranean supply in easy pumping reach ile he need not caw the possessor of 0 a flowing ar atesian well nell for the first cost of tile the lot lat ter Is aps and there Is no certainty as to when the pressure N will ill else up and it becomes necessary to attach n pump to the receding flow the para mount advant advantage ago Is that water se cured by purn piri g Is applied direct to the farmers own system of dis tribu tion and there Is little loss b evaporation or seepage rhe file flow floi is benefiting the land from the mouth ot of the well to th end of the smallest later litzel ii wiltes it R n B rose in the field and farm the next important adian advantage tage Is tint that he controls tho the auppl absolutely and can start his pump at the hour th the c N iter Is most needed not wilting salting his turn at tho the canal sup ab source it if this fainter will cut cul chite ind and apply th the e water with ith intelligence bi hlo soil NN will ill r reduce such crops that i a com comparach compi rathel small acreage will if satisfy satish his ambitions ou could not get him to set a arico on his acres unless he bad made a for tune and had la in mind permanent permin relinquishment ot of forming farming as a bust bus ness one of the most practical demon of the lie benefits ot of the pump in ing is to be found in this coun to is in tho the rice fields ot of louisiana and texas in addition to the great canal systems that furnish a supply foi thousands upon thousands of acres there are more thin than 2000 2 pumping wells each capable of irrigating from fort to one hundred and twenty acres ot of rice it takes a great deal of water to raise a rice crop and the these groN growers rg pump the water nater from a depth of feet on the benge how HON man thousands of 0 acres ot of our rich arid soil are with esith an aban dant water supply at depths look into the tha matter and 3 lou ou NN will ill be astounded it if it pas to pump on a rico rice crop thit that returns grobeis from the fio to forta fort collais an acre how about GUI fruit vegetable and alfain lands that cm can annually produce crops worth morth from 50 to an acrea acre but it Is not necessary necess ari 3 to go so tar far for object lessons and r csiti proof of the profit in pumping tion water mater wo we have a good miny many in stal lations ill all around us in successful operation the lands in these sections will ill ferow an crop desired A few dollars an awre for a rc reliable liable water nater supply applied while boli ou valt valtis Is i i see sec conRi in ill the iho eastern southern and mana man northern states the agriculturist ind and fisit gross grower cr thinks nothing of spending anent to thirty dollars an acre for fertilizers to boost his hii crop it pas handsomely and tint that Is all he cares to know it is just the same with irrigation what cier the water costs it pais in the long run tho the farmer whose land does not come under some ditch sup ply or who cannot obtain an in artesian flow flou has still this resources resource it if his land Is in the right place it all tho the acres that come within the range ot of those these various carious sources ot of v vater atar supply were tilled the remainder could be rc legated to range purposes or left barren |
