12 IRRIGATION FAKMIXG. 



makes the farmer independent of the rainfall , 

 redeem 100,000,000 acres of desert lands in the United 

 States alone; yields large returns to investors; adds 

 constantly to the security of investments ; will yield sup- 

 port for 50,000,000 of increased population in America ; 

 makes the production of choicest fruits possible, and 

 prolongs the harvest period of various crops if so desired ; 

 affords a sure foundation for the creation of wealth ; les- 

 sens the danger of floods ; utilizes the virgin soil of the 

 mountain regions ; is now employing more than $1,000,- 

 000,000 of capital ; insures two or more crops annually 

 in the lower latitudes ; will increase three fold the value 

 of lands having rainfall ; keeps off the early approach of 

 Jack Frost; improves the quality and increases fully 

 one-eighth and oftentimes one-fourth the size of fruits, 

 vegetables and grains ; makes farming profitable in waste 

 places and forever forestalls the inroads caused by the 

 ghost of drouth ; and will finally solve the great labor 

 question and fortify against the alarming increase of 

 city populations. 



The farmer who has a soil containing an abundance 

 of all the needed elements, in a proper state of fineness, 

 cannot but deem himself happy if he have always ready 

 at hand the means of readily and cheaply supplying all 

 the water needed by his soil and growing crops, just 

 when and in just such quantities as are needed. Hap- 

 pier still may he be if, besides fearing no drouth, he has 

 no rainfall to interrupt his labors or to injure his grow- 

 in ir or harvested crops. And happier still may he be 

 when he realizes that he need have no "off years," and 

 he knows that the waters he admits to his fields at will 

 are freighted with rich fertilizing elements usually far 

 more valuable to the growing crop than any that he can 

 purchase and apply at a costly rate a cost that makes 

 serious inroads upon the profits of the majority of fann- 

 ers cultivating the worn-out or deteriorated soils in the 



