ARID AGRICULTURE. 



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SELECTING 

 AN 



IRRIGATED 

 FARM 



Purchasers of western homes will find two 

 conditions of irrigated farms. First, those 

 which have been irrigated and developed. Sec- 

 ond, raw lands for the reclamation of which irri- 

 gation works have been or are being constructed. 

 No advice is needed by the man w r ho is going to 

 buy a developed farm, save the general advice 

 not to buy more than he can work and manage 

 with the greatest profit, and to understand the 

 nature of his water right. 



To the farmer who would acquire title to new 

 land under private ditches, Carey Act projects 

 or Government reclamation enterprises, much 

 more should be said than the limitations of a 

 brief chapter permit. 



The most happy, prosperous and quickly de- 

 veloped homes may be, and are, built in the arid 

 region by and thru the use of our perennial 

 water supply. Since the early days water has 

 so increased in value that permanent water 

 rights are often cheap at thirty dollars to fifty 

 dollars per acre. One who pays these prices for 

 his water rights should use judgment in the 

 selection of the land. There are few poor lands 

 and practically none which will not produce 

 crops. Some are far more suitable than others 

 for certain intensive culture crops. There are 

 ]><>r;>ro soils, sugar beet soils, grain soils and fruit 

 soils. 



