390 ARID AGRICULTURE. 



certain that the land will sustain him. The 

 active development now going on in the West 

 insures that an industrious man can always find 

 something to do at high wages, and many work 

 out one-half the year, in order to get means to 

 develop their homes the other half year. As a 

 general rule a man should not attempt more than 

 forty acres to eighty acres under irrigation. 

 More money is made by proper intensive culti- 

 vation on the small farm unit under irrigation. 

 ~No return should be expected from the land the 

 first year outside of garden or feed for home use, 

 and maintenance of cow and work animals. A 

 prevalent fault with most men who become en- 

 thusiastic over a new country is an uncontroll- 

 able desire to own all of it. 



~ The new farmer should be willing to pioneer 



BEGINNING 



MAKES FOR for a while. He should rough it and build 

 IMANENCE ^ first put as small outlay as possible 



in dead stock those things which will give no 

 cash return from use of capital employed. Make 

 the live stock part of the investment as good and 

 permanent as possible. By "live stock" we mean 

 all those things which will give returns, whether 

 they be pigs, chickens, soil culture or crops. It is 

 stock in trade. Buildings for first occupancy 

 of man or animals may be temporary and cheap. 

 In the West none need shun the outdoors. Night 

 air is as healthy as day air there is no danger 



