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is becoming firmly established and many of the prize 

 winners there found it a great aid. 



Water Saved the Garden. — A very fine garden 

 was grown by W. T. Brickey, Hitchcock county, 

 Nebraska, from whose description a good idea may be 

 obtained of the special difficulties and methods. 



Owing to the hot summer weather and the light 

 rainfall in this section, says Mr. Brickey, it has 



A NEBRASKA GARDEN SPOT BEFORE IRRIGATION 



been found impracticable to grow a garden, only 

 in exceptional years, without irrigation. In addi- 

 tion to this, of late years we have been afflicted 

 with a pest of grasshoppers, thus making the grow- 

 ing of a garden increasingly difficult, so much so 

 that few farmers even attempt growing anything 

 in this line more than Irish potatoes, sweet corn 



