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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE PLANTER'S DEPENDENCE 

 ON GOOD SEEDS. 



Without good, fresh, fertile seeds, good 

 crops aie impossible. It is, then, of the 

 most vital importance that you should 

 exercise the greatest possible caution in 

 selecting the seeds you are to plant the 

 coining season. Since you cannot de- 

 termine their fertility or freshness by sight, 

 the only certain way to insure yourself 

 against worthless seeds is to buy only 

 those that bear the name of a firm about 

 whose reliability there is no question. 

 There are no better known seedsmen any- 

 where, and none who have a higher reputa- 

 tion for integrity, than D. M. Ferry & Co., 

 of Detroit, Mich. FerryVSeeds have been 

 a synonym for good seeds for many years. 

 Thousands of gardeners who continue to 

 plant them season after season, do so with 

 the full confidence that they will uniformly 

 be found to be of high vitality, and most 

 important of all, true to name. 



Ferry's Seed Annual forp 900 is fully up 

 to the standard of former years and will be 

 welcomed by all who have learned to re- 

 gard it as a thoroughly reliable and prac- 

 tical guide to planting. A copy may be 



obtained free by addressing the firm as 

 above. 



Land monopoly is hardly a question to 

 frighten the West as yet. There is no 

 dearth of land. With between seventy- 

 five and a hundred million acres of public 

 land waiting to be reclaimed, irrigated and 

 cultivated, the West need not yet worry 

 about what land has passed into private 

 hands. Let it turn its attention to that 

 remaining and unite to secure its reclama- 

 ion by ihe National Government. 



Congress apprdriates millous of dollars 

 for the building of levees, ripraps and 

 dredging mud to comparatively little pur- 

 pose; the waters every now and then come 

 rampaging down and break over the levees, 

 causing death and destructing. But the 

 same money, spent by the same G-overn- 

 ment and by the same competent corps of 

 engineers, to build storage dams aud irri- 

 gation ditches, would prevent floods by 

 storing these waste waters, and would give 

 employment to thousands of laborers, and> 

 at the same time, create a home for every 

 one of them. 



