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THE IRRIOA TION A GE. 



worth more than the water that falls. One 

 can have some of these advantages by 

 watering in cloudy weather, but much of 

 the irrigation must be done in dry weather 

 with a low barometer. A Wesleyan 

 preacher said the other day, that the more 

 religion a church has the lebs ice cream it 

 took to run it. Is it too strong to say that 

 the better tillage one has the less irriga- 

 tion it takes to run the cropping? I was 

 looking at a field of corn a week ago when 



it was dry and to the owner that that corn 

 had a rough surface all over the field and 

 looked hot like brick. The ground was 

 thin and the corn small enough so that the 

 soil shone on it white and hot. What 

 could he expect? Irrigation may be quite 

 profitable in gardening. I should try it. 

 But not in field crops in Indiana, with 



wheat at 60 to 70 cents. 



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