THE IEEIGA TION A OK 22S 



acre. The average value per acre of products not fed to livestock 

 on unirrigated farms was $3.74. The average value of land, exclusive 

 of buildings is, for all farms, $11.15; for unirrigated farms, $9.11; and 

 for irrigated farms, $12.94. The average value of irrigated land per 

 acre is $31 .25, while that for the best irrigated land suitable for the 

 growing of fruit, ranges from $60 to $500 per acre. 



"The total value of all crops produced on irrigated land in the 

 census year was $5,440,962. The values of the several irrigated crops, 

 were: Hay 'and forage, $3,219,156; cerealg, $1,275,858; vegetables, 

 $544,314;'orchard fruits, $291, 007; small fruits, $38,190 and other crops, 

 $72,437." 



"TALKED ABOUT." 



The neighbors talked about her nearly everywhere they met, 

 They talked about her till she died; they talk about her yet. 

 The high and low all spoke of her, as did the old and young, 

 And every gossip tossed her name upon her nimble tongue. 



She always kept a-doing things, by night as well as day, 

 To set the tongues a-going in the swiftest sort of way; 

 Across the back-yard fences and from door to door. 

 At church and sociable her name was whispered o'er and o'er. 



'Twas she who kissed the baby first and blest its happy birth; 

 'Twas she who helped to guide its feet through all the paths of earth; 

 'Twas she who watched beside the bed whereon the dying lay, 

 'Twas she who soothed the stricken friends when one was called away. 



The neighbors talked about her nearly everywhere they met; 

 They talked about her till she died; they talk about her yet. 

 They talked about her wondrous hands, her heart so full of love, 

 And now the angels talk of her who dwells with them above. 



Nixon Waterman, in L. A. W. Bulletin. 



