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FARMER'S REPLY TO MR. LANE 



(Continued from page ifd) 



We homesteaders wonder why the experimental farm 

 doesn't abide by the rotation system, for surely a man 

 is not qualified to do experimental farming, if he can't 

 conduct his experiments under irrigation by rotation. 

 The experts of the Service farm on paper and 

 irrigate on paper. This paper exercise has prevented 

 the experts from acquiring a practical knowledge of 

 farming under irrigation. Whatever of practical 

 knowledge they have has been acquired by watching 

 "ignorant farmers." I asked one of these experts how 

 much water to put on a field of oats. Oh, just give 

 it a good soaking, he replied. And he is still in the 

 Service. It doesn't seem possible that the later irriga- 

 tors can learn anything new or even what the "earlier"' 



irrigators learned as we are still assumed to be igno- 

 rant of how to irrigate. And the farmers on the 

 Huntley project never will know until they cease to 

 be "above the average in intelligence, etc." For it is 

 only a degenerate class that can be willingly made to 

 do the bidding of the Reclamation Service. We have 

 been accused of using too much water on the Huntley 

 project, thus causing seepage. That is true in isolated 

 cases, but it is not true in general. Very few farmers 

 run water for fun. We are glad to get the job done 

 as soon as possible and as fast as we can get the sur- 

 face graded, we run less water, but we have to "sup- 

 port a family" in the meantime and so can not do all 

 the grading in the first year or two. 



This leads to the subject of underground drain- 

 age. These experts in the Service knew (or they 



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