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HAY CROP ON IRRIGATED LAND. 



E. C. Specker of Prosser Gets Over 16 Tons From z% Acres. 



Prosser, Wash, July 19. As an evidence of what 

 can be produced on irrigated land, the experience of 

 E. C. Specker, whose farm is located a mile and a quar- 

 ter east of town, is worth relating. He brought to town 

 last week nine tons and 850 pounds of timothy hay, 

 which he raised on two and one-fourth acres of land, 

 measured ground, selling the hay for $7.50 per ton, $1 

 less than it is really worth. This was the first cutting 

 of the crop, which yielded the owner $67.50. If he had 

 received the market price it would have been worth 

 $76.50. The second cutting, Mr. Specker estimates, will 

 yield seven tons, which, if sold at the same figure, will 

 give him $52.50, or $120 for his crop from two and one- 

 fourth acres. If it had sold at the market price it would 

 have been worth $136. 



Such yields as this are not unusual in this valley 

 this one being mentioned for the simple fact that it came 

 under the personal notice of your correspondent. And 

 the crop was raised without any labor whatever, except 

 that put in in irrigating. The land was seeded four 

 years ago, the crop requiring no attention in the mean- 

 time except turning the water on and harvesting. 



This may sound like an extravagant story to east- 

 ern farmers, not acquainted with the yield on irrigated 

 land, but hundreds of such instances can be cited and 

 verified. Similar land is selling in the vicinity of Pros- 

 ser for from $70 to $100 per acre. An ordinary hay crop 

 will pay for it in one season, after which the owner has 

 the income from it practically without labor. Such land 

 is now selling around North Yakima for $250 and $300 



per acre. It is an absolute certainty that it will be 

 worth the same here in three or four years' time. 



The Prosser country is in the same condition now 

 that North Yakima was when the Sunnyside canal was 

 built. 



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