VI PREFACE 



cultivation in connection with all irrigation operations, 

 as the one is just as essential as the other and the two 

 are indispensable in attaining the most perfect results. 

 "Till and keep tilling" is my most potent axiom. I 

 have deprecated shiftless methods in cultivation as de- 

 rogatory to the best success, and have condemned the 

 practice as inexcusable as the wanton waste of water 

 itself. In all the conclusions that I have made 1 

 have used the judgment afforded by twenty years' actual 

 experience in the field, and if these lessons prove of any 

 benefit to the agricultural masses I shall feel that this 

 work has not been in vain and that the labor has been 

 worthy of its hire. 



LUTE TVILCOX. 

 DENVER, COLORADO, 1895. 



