rest is planted with trees and various kinds of bushes. 

 Many springs have reappeared and brooks have a better 

 flow during the summer months. 



Take the time to walk over one of the farms. Not an 

 owner will object; he will be proud to have you see his farm. 

 You will see contour plowing. Here and there you will see 

 terracing and strip-planting a lot of small fruit and berries 

 are grown that way now some of it for game birds as well 

 as humans, in addition to the regular orchards. Check dams 

 are causing old gullies to fill rapidly and frequently you will 

 find plowing and planting right over the site of a former 

 gully; in other places they have been planted to trees. The 

 farmers whose lands have been restored to forest use have 

 moved to better lands in the Valley bottom, and are becoming 

 prosperous again. 



On some farms, those having favorable sites, you will 

 find small reservoirs. Most of these reservoirs are not 

 permanent, merely hold back the water until it soaks in, but 

 many are permanent and furnish water for irrigating the 

 gardens and other high-value crops when a season is dry or 

 the rain does not fall at the right time; and for the stock, and 

 for use in barns and houses. Drinking water, however, is 

 generally pumped from the ground. Some of the farms 

 near and below Valley Center, which do not have proper sites 

 for individual reservoirs, are connected with the big reser- 

 voir at the Center. Of course it will not seem so big if you 

 have seen the power dams down on the lower river, but it is 

 the largest in the Valley, and they call it the "big reservoir." 

 It has a small power plant. 



Of course these permanent reservoirs are much lower in 

 the late summer, after they have been drawn on for irriga- 

 tion, than after the spring rains, but somehow they never 

 go dry. These woods and pasture lands seem to feed them 

 all through the summer; there are as many springs as there 

 used to be before the Valley was settled, and the wells keep 

 full. 



The woods and meadows do not do it all. For instance, 

 you may have noticed that the roads are well graded and 

 drained; but also that in some places water from yester- 



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