THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



10!) 



must be placed upon co-operative effort, or upon the Finding an old irrigating ditch on a run-down farm 



general Government and storage reservoirs. But there at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Jere Sanborn opened 



is room enough and promise enough to attract a large it up, utilized it, and with the aid of manure, in a few 



immigration, and as compared with Canada and a large years quintupled the crops, quadrupled the stock and 



Irrigation Scenes in the West An Irrigation Canal at Las Cruces Agricultural College in the Rio 



Grande Project, New Mexico, 



acreage, the advantages of New Mexico and a small multiplied the number of persons supported by the farm 

 farm are great. by eleven. Under the old methods it produced 112 tons 

 Here is the "sure crop argument," and the "great of hay; irrigation raised the tonnage to 800 an exam- 

 crop" argument, and given an adequate and unfailing pie of what a little farm well tilled will do in sterile and 



Irrigation Scenes in the West Indian Laborers at Work Constructing the Globe Road Salt River 



Project. 



water supply a man's land in this climate has a perpetual bleak New England under irrigation. Here, with rich 



endowment an invested fund from which he can draw soil and the very kindliest climate, it is impossible to 



while he cultivates the land, and which will greatly en- convince an eastern man who has not seen it, what mois- 



hance the land's value when he comes to sell it. ture will do for plant-life of every kind. Both the in- 



