LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



CHAPTER I. 



FIGURE 



1. They've been to see grandpa. Brookside Farm, Lee Co. Ill 



2. A cottage home on a Montana farm. 



3. He works in sight of Ironic. 



4. Patience. 



5. A Colorado wheat-field. 



6. An Arkansas orchard. 



7. A York State farm scene. 



8. Ready for action. 



9. Future profits. 



10. Evidences of prosperity. 



CHAPTER II. 



11. Cloud effect in the canal country. 



12. Lake Tahoe, Col., a source of waters for irrigation. 



13. Irrigating canal concrete lined. 



14. A lateral. 



15. Weir on main canal, near Gridley, Cal. 



16. Dam diverting Truckee river into canal, Nevada. 



17. Flooding. 



18. Private irrigating plant. 



19. Irrigated corn, near Stockton, Cal. 



20. Irrigated peanut-vines, near Stockton, Cal. 



21. An irrigated orchard in Arizona. 



22. Pole-beans grown by irrigation. 



CHAPTER III. 



23. Sugar-cane, Louisiana. 



24. Grown in the same soil with and without inoculation. 



25. A comparison. 



26. One hundred bushels of corn to the acre in Pennsylvania 



27. Tubercles of velvet beans, produced by inoculation. 



