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lished the town of Eaton, who rents his land for one-third the crop r 

 realized a half-million dollars from his share of last year's product. 



BETTER HEALTH. 



The climate in irrigated countries is also more healthful, both for 

 human kind and stock, because there is more sunshine and less expo- 

 sure to storms and sudden changes of temperature and conditions of 

 weather. Th doctors uniformly recommend that those with weak 

 lungs shall go to the arid regions. There being less humidity in the 

 atmosphere, the "feel" of both heat and cold is less penetrating. The 

 climate is also less favorable to the multiplication of man's greatest 

 enemy, the bacteria germ. In many localities fresh meat when ex- 

 posed, instead of quickly putrifying, as in the humid region, simply 

 dries up, showing an absence of the germ agencies of death. There. 

 is also less of the larger insect life to destroy crops or annoy live 

 stock. 



It is also a relief, especially to nervous people, to be free from the 

 fear of nerve-racking thunder-storms and the danger of cyclones and 



Chinese Wind Pump for Irrigation. 



violent winds, a condition characteristic of favored portions of the- 

 arid regions. 



DEMAND FOR FARM PRODUCTS EXCEEDS SUPPLY. 



Another marked advantage of farming by irrigation in the arid 

 and semi-arid regions is found in the limited area available for tillage^ 

 consisting of a few fertile valleys, oases in the desert wastes of piled 

 up rocks and mountains, while the demand for products at the adja- 

 cent mines greatly exceeds the supply. 



It so happens that the greater part of the food supply consumed 

 hi the western mountain regions is shipped from the plains of Kansas 

 and Nebraska and other eastern states. For this reason exceptionally 

 good home markets and higher prices for products abound, usually 

 Kansas and Nebraska prices plus high freight charges and the cost of 

 h andling. 



