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acres of irrigated land. Her reported yield for 1904 was 

 40 boxes of apples, 5 tons of prunes, i ton of tomatoes, i ton 

 of grapes, 4 barrels of cider, $15 worth of vinegar, $60 worth 

 of cherries, $75 worth of pears and $20 worth of celery. In 

 taking care of this produce she employed one man through- 

 out the year, and an extra man for two months. Without 

 definite knowledge of the value of the different items, the 

 total cannot, of course, be given, but $1,200, after paying the 

 cost of her help, is certainly a conservative estimate. 



It is such yields as these, with the element of uncertainty 

 wholly eliminated, that render these farm lands, even though 

 at present they are far from market, so valuable to the home- 

 seeker. In as healthful a climate as can be found anywhere, 

 with toil well remunerated, with ample time after the day's 

 work is performed for the cultivation of the mind and the finer 

 elements of life, with the close neighborhoods and all the as- 

 sociations, relations and pleasures that are the concomitant 

 of these conditions, it is a natural sequence that farm lands 

 in these sections should attain to maximum values. 



The very great advantages of irrigation have impressed 

 themselves upon the country eastward to the Atlantic and 

 southward to the Gulf. Three hundred thousand acres have 

 been put under irrigation in Louisiana and Texas, where its 

 services are added to the natural rainfall in the cultivation of 

 rice. While the central and seaboard states have as yet done 

 nothing in a large way, private enterprise has made begin- 

 nings in almost every one of them Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, 

 New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and the results re- 

 ported are such that the practice is certain to be extended, 

 how widely we cannot yet tell. 



We have an authentic report that even in the dryest years 



