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two and three-acre lots have been laid off, so that water 

 can be delivered to them. These places are suitable for 

 a home with garden, orchard, chickens and a cow, at the 

 same time being close to the business of the town. 



A demonstration farm is already in operation for 

 the benefit of the settlers of the Huntley project. This 

 farm is under the management of one of the most suc- 

 cessful agriculturalists in the northwest, and the results 

 obtained and also the assistance and co-operation of the 

 manager are available at all times to the settlers on the 

 Huntley project. 



Settlers taking homesteads should have enough 

 money to make the necessary improvements, acquire 

 farming outfits, and maintain themselves and families 

 until they can harvest a crop. 



In general, as a business opportunity for a "home- 

 steader," the Huntley project presents as attractive a 

 prospect as this country affords. It is strictly an irriga- 

 tion and intensive farming proposition. It is difficult 

 adequately to present to the farmer from the humid 

 states the possibilities of rich soil where there is an 

 abundant water supply and where the application of 

 water to the soil is absolutely controlled. It is, in 

 effect, the prevention of drouth, the control of the rain- 

 fall, the clouds and the seasons. When the difficulties of 

 the average farmer have been removed, there is one 

 great advantage enjoyed by the irrigator over his brother 

 who relies upon the rainfall. This is in the fertilizing 

 value of the water from the stream which is fed by 

 mountain snows and springs. The water used for irri- 

 gation always contains more or less solid material both 

 in solution and suspension, a considerable portion of 

 which is composed of fertilizing elements. The process 

 of irrigation always adds more or less fertilizing mate- 



rial to the land and in many parts of the world this 

 has been found, year after year, and even century after 

 century, to meet the needs of the most intensive farm- 

 ing. When this is understood, and the further fact 

 that the fertilizing element of the soil in irrigated re- 

 gions is not dissolved out and carried away by excessive 

 rains, as in the humid regions, explanation will be 

 found for the high value which irrigated lands, espe- 

 cially where an unfailing supply of water is assured, 

 have always commanded. No farmer who has once prac- 

 ticed irrigation would willingly return to the pursuit of 

 agriculture in a region where he would need to depend 

 upon the natural rainfall. 



Send $2.50 for The Irrigation 



Age one year and 

 The Primer of Irrigation 



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