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waste of water itself. In all conclusions I have used 

 the judgment afforded by twenty-five years' acftual 

 experience in the field, and if these lessons prove of 

 any benefit to the agricultural masses far and wide I 

 shall feel that this work has not been in vain, and that 

 the labor has been worthy of its hire. 



Lucius M. Wii^cox. 



Denver, Colorado, 1902. 



