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may be well considered fabulous. But there is no reason to doubt 

 the facts. On the contrary, they should be used as a stimulus 

 for us to adopt, wherever practicable, the methods by which these 

 crops are produced." 



The methods above referred to are those of surface irrigation, 

 which, when compared with those of subsurface are, in results, as 

 fractions to units. 



We have as before stated, grown three perfect crops of timothy 

 in a season under conditions not nearly as favorable as those se- 

 cured under our system as at present existing. This can be done 

 not only by the farmers of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mary- 

 land, the Virginias and Carolinas, but in New York, New England 

 and the more northern states generally, and quite as well in 

 regions still farther north, where snows fall deeply, and remain 

 upon the ground during the entire winter. These are facts, and 

 as such should result in insuring adoption of our system wherever 

 American thrift, intelligence and enterprise prompt to action. 



In the cultivation of the vine, there opens a field so wide as to 

 make its growth a source of wealth not easy to estimate. Along 

 mountains and hillsides, where grapes are grown, there is almost 

 invariably found pools of water, deep hidden in chambers of stone. 



From these the waters should be dropped, below the frost line, 

 where, warm in winter and cool in summer, moving from trench 

 to trench, the health of the vine, hence its wealth of production, is 

 promoted. Mr. Stewart opens the ninth chapter of his book as 

 follows: 



" It is doubtful whether there is an orchard or vineyard in the 

 United States, except in California, Utah or Colorado, subjected to 

 systematic irrigation. At the same time it is doubtful if there is 

 any country in the world in which irrigation could be more profit- 

 ably applied to fruit culture than here. The experience of orchard- 



