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DEVELOPMENT FOLLOWS BURST BOOM 



(Continued on page 170) 



hard blows, the blows were not of the knock-out va- 

 riety. All demonstrate that irrigation enterprises are 

 coming back better, bigger, and stable. 



Xow for the foundation of it all the farmers 

 and their produce. This looks like a banner year for 

 the men on the irrigation projects. There has been 

 lots of rain and snow throughout the winter all over 

 the West. The reservoirs are full. Little winter- 

 killing is reported. Unless our faithful almanacs are 

 all wrong. Spring will open early. On many of the 

 projects much plowing and some seeding has already 

 been done that, of course, does not include those 

 where farming goes on practically the year around. 



The irrigation farmers are better equipped than 

 ever before. They have a better knowledge of their 

 soil, of irrigation, of their crops. They have more 

 land cleared, leveled and checked, or ditched. They 

 have more live stock. They have more comfortable 

 homes. Most of them did well enough last year to 

 lay aside a little money to finance this year's work. 



The irrigation communities are welding them- 

 selves closer together. There is more co-operative 

 and business-like marketing now than last year, and 

 this will continue to spread, for* it means money to 

 the farmers. There have been many creameries and 

 mills put up during the winter. There have been 

 many dairy herds started and started right, with 

 good sires and well-bred cows. 



If the rural credit bill on which Congress is 

 working is so framed as to benefit the irrigation 



farmer as well as the Eastern farmer, it will give 

 added impetus, as it will open the way to funds for 

 improvements on a more extensive scale. 



On the Federal projects the Secretary of the In- 

 terior has granted the Water Users still further ex- 

 tension of time for their payments. Under the pro- 

 posed twenty-year extension bill, the size of the pay- 

 ments will be much smaller. There are indications 

 that other injustices on these projects will be 

 eliminated. 



Do you wonder that to the observer, irrigation 

 affairs promise progress and encouragement during 

 the year 1914? 



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