THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



the national welfare than the $50,000- 

 income farm is. The one is in the reach 

 of any industrious and intelligent man. 

 The other is in reach of the few. The 

 one is safe and steady. The other is 

 speculative and uncertain. We need the 

 moderate and modest farm to make 

 citizens. We use the other to make 

 money. The large money-making farm 

 is a useful object lesson. It shows that 

 business and. executive ability can make 

 money from the land as well as from a 

 salt mine or a bicycle factory. But it is a 

 fallacy to hold it up as the ideal in 

 American farming. 



SHEEP AND CATTLE WAR. 



Evidences of the inadequacy of the 

 present land laws for the western range, 

 and the necessity for a policy of leasing 

 the now overstocked public grazing lands^ 

 continue to present themselves in furtlur 

 reports of conflict between western ranch- 

 men. A Cheyenne dispatch calls attention 

 to northwestern Colorado as the scene of 

 war between sheep and cattle men. Four 

 well armed horsemen, it is stated, carfully 

 disguised, recently shot and killed 150 

 sheep and crippled 25 more belonging to 

 the Warren Live Stock Company of 

 Cheyenne. It was also reported that two 

 sheep herders were badly beaten. All 

 such dispatches go to show that the range 

 question has become a burning one, and 

 that grazing regulations and leasing of 

 range lands have become a necessity to 

 insure law and order. 



VALUABLE FOREIGN SEEDS. 



Mr. Jared Smith, one of the grass 

 experts of the Department of Agriculture, 

 states that the Department has received 

 some seeds which may prove interesting 

 to western farmers. They are mostly from 

 the arid regions of Siberia and Russian 

 Turkestan country, in many respects 

 resembling the arid regions of the West. 

 Among them are hairy vetch, which is 

 drought and also cold resistant, a variety 



of winter rye which is especially hardy 

 and drought resistant, oats, and two or 

 three kinds of winter wheat. Most of 

 these seeds are thought to be suitable to 

 climates having extremes of temperature, 

 and the Department is willing to supply 

 ree trial lots to farmers desiring to try 

 them. Some of the Turkestan alfalfa, 

 which is thought to be very drought 

 resistant, is also available. 



THE SMALL FARM BEST. 

 How much happier would our farmer and 

 his family be if he had not to exceed 160 

 acres, well fenced, thoroughly cultivated, 

 with comfortable and substantial buildings 

 and improvements of all kinds. With the 

 possible addition of one man, he and his 

 family can do all the labor necessary to 

 keep the farm in good shape and make a 

 comfortable living. 



People do not always practice what they 

 preach but Hettie Green, the richest woman 

 in America is an exception to the rule, for 

 she has practiced the advice she gave a 

 little girl as to how to become rich: 



You shouldn't drink coffee. You're too 

 young. 



Don't eat candy. I never ate candy 

 when I was a child. 1 never spent my 

 pennies for it. 



Try doing without coffee and putting 

 the pennies you save in that way in the 

 bank. 



It doesn't matter if it's only two cents a 

 week. 



I had only 50 cents when I started to 

 make money. I put it in the bank. 



Be careful of your health. 



Be reliable that's the golden rule of 

 business. 



Save your pennies. 



Study, not how you can spend the money 

 you have earned, but how you can make 

 more. 



Keep on earning money. If you stop 

 earning, your fortune will shrink, just as 

 your arm does when you don't exercise it 



See that your head isn't lame. It does- 

 n't matter about your legs. 



Learn to know good people from bad. 



