Show irrigation NG STICKS along alan in the summer time when we have to stay up all night to irrigate or get up at 2 2 in the morning light a lantern lariton and go up the ditch to take the water later we sometimes wish that we lived in a country where the gentle rains from heaven did all the irrigating As a matter of fact there here is always a certain amount of migration i from irrigation districts into more humid sections but there is at least an equal migration back agan when th the e gentle rains from heaven fall to come and the leaves it f the earn corn curl up and parch and the he wheat stocks wither away leaving diminutive heads of wheat with shrunken kernels there is s a yearning for a country where the aler can he turned on oil when it gets dry irrigation farming with its disadvantages its additional labor and expense is after all a more scientific system and one that elmi eliminates nates a reat great deal of the hazard that attends agricultural operations in other sections |