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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



SOME RESOLUTIONS. 



When the Texas farmer makes up his 

 list of New Year's resolutions he might 

 resolve, among other things: 



To raise less Cain and more long sweet- 

 inn', , 



To plant an orchard. 



To abandon razorbacks and mossbacks 

 and to raise Poland Chinas and diversify. 



To have a garden. 



To quit raising $5 yearlings on $50 land. 



To raise a few inule colts. 



To raise beef cattle or else go into the 

 goat business. 



To have a potato patch. 



To have poultry that will pay and raise 

 fewer dunghill fowls. 



To spray for boll weevils. 



To get rural delivery service or ask 

 Uncle Sam the reason why. 



To get out of debt. 



To pay less for wear and tear of vehicles 

 and have good roads. 



To keep his resolutions. Dallas Farm 

 Journal 



IS IT WORTH WHILE, AFTER ALL? 



"Brain fever at twelve and we are left 

 alone." 



"We pushed her, and God knows how 

 we have suffered for our mistake." 



"She graduated, but she never recov- 

 ered, and in two years we had no daughter." 



''I thought more of a diploma than T did 

 of my child. Now, I have only the 

 diploma." 



"Everything that love and skill could 

 suggest was done. But our eyes had been 

 opened too late." 



" 'Promotion! Promotion!' was our cry 

 Then our little girl was promoted. But 

 not in the way we hoped." 



"'We placed an education above health, 

 and the life of a promising girl of eight- 

 een is the price of our mistake." 



"It was music and painting added to a 

 tired brain. Now our house is still a 

 monument to our thoughtlessness." 



"What would not my husband and I 

 give of our means today if we could undo 

 the past and bring our only child back! 

 That is the hardest part to bear: the feel- 

 ing of what we might have done. From 

 the housetops would we cry out to parents 

 to take care!" Nine American Parents in 

 the Ladies Home Journal for January. 



EGYPTIAN COTTON IN THE U. S. 

 Anent the subject of irrigation to re- 

 claim the arid west, which subject Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt has pointedly called to the 

 attention of congress, a discovery has just 

 been made which it is hoped will hasten 

 congressional action along the line sug- 

 gested. The discovery is that Egyptian 

 cotton can be successfully grown in the 

 desert of Arizona and to the immediate 

 south thereof. Of course this can only 

 be done by irrigation. But the experi- 

 ment has been tried there this year with 

 entire satisfaction. It is reported that 

 samples have been sent the agricultu 

 ral department at Washington which has 

 pronounced the cotton as fine as the 

 Egyptian staple. This exceptional grade 

 of cotton has been tried in the southern 

 states but our climate is not dry enough to 

 produce the best results. Yet we annu- 

 ally send $8,000,000 to Egypt for her cot- 

 ton. If the same can be raised in Arizona 

 and New Mexico through irrigation, cer- 

 tainly it should be done and this $8,000,- 

 000 a year be kept at home. In this 

 connection the Neic Orleans Picayune has 

 the following editorial reference: 



"It should be remembered that in Egypt 

 the climate is extremely dry and rainless 

 and all agricultural crops are grown by the 

 aid of irrigation. In this connection it is 

 worth mentioning that tests made at the 

 government stations have demonstrated 

 to the satisfaction of the department of 

 agriculture that Egyptian cotton can be 

 successfully, and perhaps profitably raised 

 in the rainless and what may be calledjthe 

 desert region of Arizona. 



