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years — yet the fact that water is available must add a sense of 

 security to the farmer's work, and keep him from some of the 

 anxieties and worries that seem inseparable from his calling. 



It is difficult if not impossible to write with definiteness as to 

 results in the way of enhancing the value of land in Canada by irriga- 

 tion. The works reviewed are of too recent a date to permit of 

 speaking of them with anything approaching certainty, but this at 

 least may b3 said that under irrigation, in the Okanagan Valley in 



IBRIGATION SCHEME, BIG CUT ON COLDSTREAM ESTATE, B.C. 



British Columbia, crops and fruits are very successfully grown, and 

 at Raymond and Stirling on the Lethbridge system, and at Gleichen 

 on the C.P.R. system, beautiful fields of sugar beet were seen, which 

 could not be conceived as grown without its aid. One farmer who 

 has had considerable experience gave it as his opinion that irrigated 

 land was well worth twice as much as non-irrigated land in his 

 district, and from facts and figures which have been produced 

 relating to lands and crops in certain districts in the United 

 States, where irrigation has long been employed, it would appear 

 that his estimate is well within the truth. 



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