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ATYPICAL PRAIRIE IRRIGATION PLANT. 

 D. M. Frost, Garden City. 



he can increase the crop to three times the 

 quantity and have it all grade fancy, it is 

 easy to see that, at any prices for fruits 

 that have been known to prevail, he could 

 afford to spend a very considerable sum 

 per acre to install an irrigation plant. 



" Then if, in place of an occasional crop, 

 the irrigation will give him regular annual 

 crops of this class, it requires no book- 

 keeping to discover that it is profitable." 



Gasoline has taken a notion to advance 

 since it has come into considerable use 

 as a pumping power. Coal sells at 

 from four to six dollars on the plains and 



the need of a cheap, reliable power for 

 pumping offers inventive genius a prolific 

 field. The "Defender" and the "Mo- 

 gul" do not supply the need. 



The wind is lightest and the sun strong- 

 est during the driest months. Who will 

 give us a practical helimotor and reap the 

 reward that awaits him ? 



THE AVERAGE KETUKN PEE ACRE. 



Pump irrigation, or anything else, is a 

 failure if it does not pay. The following 

 table gives returns from certain crops as 

 reported by quite a number of prominent 

 irrigators on the Western Kansas plains. 

 Each item, being the average of those re- 

 ported to the writer, would seem to be en- 

 tirely within the reach of any intelligent 

 and industrious irrigation farmer. 



Annual Keturns Dollars 

 Per Acre. 



Allowing for exaggerations or over- 

 enthusiasm of the honest farmers furnish- 



PUMP1KG PLANT OF PKKSTON \VYCKOFF, HOME. KANSAS. 



