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ARID AGRICULTURE. 



and the cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with 

 a college education." 



He is now becoming acquainted with a sugar 

 beet which was once an annual weed growing on 

 the seacoast, and the things he learns are too 

 numerous to mention. 



PROFIT FROM 



SMALLER 

 AREAS 



GROWING 



BEETS 



IMPROVES 



LAND 



The bringing of some of thi& land under in- 

 tensive cultivation to gain larger profits from 

 smaller areas is a most important lesson for the 

 irrigation farmer. We will have more people, 

 more happiness and more general prosperity 

 when we have fully reached the realization that 

 more of everything we work for can be obtained 

 from an irrigated farm of twenty acres properly 

 managed than from an hundred or a thousand 

 acres which keeps a man both skin poor and pen- 

 niless. This is one of the last and hardest les- 

 sons the arid land farmer, who comes from re- 

 gions where the more land the more wealth prin- 

 ciple prevails, has to learn. 



Third The continual stirring of the soil by 

 the plowing, sub-soiling, planting, thinning hoe- 

 ing, irrigating, cultivating and harvesting, im- 

 proves the land. Jethro Tull, in England, taught 

 that thorough tillage was the only thing neces- 

 sary to make the soil everlastingly productive, 

 and he was not far wrong, especially when the 

 principle is applied to arid soil, containing as it 

 does, practically all the plant foods that were in 



