SUNSHINE FARMING 



intervals of drouth, often with severe hot 

 winds. If a portion of the rainfall could 

 be stored much of it could be used for irri- 

 gation. Evaporation also increases rapidly 

 in amount, from east to west, in nearly in- 

 verse ratio to the precipitation. Its esti- 

 mated amount is 3 feet in the eastern portion 

 of the region and 6 feet in the western, in- 

 cluding the mountains." 



Now suppose that when the rain descends 

 it finds the soil, especially at the surface, in 

 perfect and splendid tilth, open, porous, 

 friable, thirsty, with no crusts or lumps any- 

 where. Unless it forms a deluge, a cloud- 

 burst, the water is out of sight at once, no 

 run-off and next to no evaporation. It is 

 stored in a government reservoir provided 

 by the government of the universe for this 

 express purpose, which, if you guard it well, 

 will answer as completely as any of those 

 the United States is erecting at so great cost. 



So much for "bottling" the water that 

 falls; now how shall we keep the cork in 

 against those inebriates, Sun and Wind, ever 

 at work to suck it up and drink it? 



