THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Sixth Year. Assuming a reduction of alfalfa 

 to $300 and increase in milk and meat to $3,300, 

 the income the sixth year would be $3,600. The 

 outlay may be assumed as follows : 



Running expenses $1,600.00 



Family expenses 700.00 



Interest . 300.00 



Total $2,600.00 



This leaves a balance of $1,000, with which eight 

 cows and a bull may be purchased. 



Seventh Year. There will now be on hand 

 forty cows, which will stock the sixty acres fully, 

 so that the only return will be from the sale of but- 

 ter fat and livestock. During the seventh year, 

 under this plan, the owner should receive an in- 

 come of $4,000 and may estimate his running ex- 

 penses at $2,000, leaving $2,000 to be divided among 

 living expenses, interest, and reduction of debt. 

 Assuming living expenses to have been $700, there 

 would be left $1,300 for interest and reduction of 

 debt. At the end of the seventh year, therefore, 

 this man's account would stand as follows : 



Property, worth $16,000.00 



Cash on hand 1,300.00 



The net annual gain, therefore, over living ex- 

 .penses has been $1,000. Most farming operations 

 are not so simple as this illustration, because most 

 farming is, as it should be, more diversified. 

 Neither does this illustration provide for sickness, 

 lack of water, or other accidents. Further, it as- 

 sumes land well adapted to alfalfa and suitably lo- 

 cated with reference to a creamery. On the other 

 hand, the increase through the saving of the heifer 

 calves has been ignored in order to balance pos- 

 sible loss of cows. This estimate also assumes that 

 the owner hires all labor except, of course, his own. 

 If he has grown or growing children, part of the 

 running expenses here estimated may be kept with- 

 in the family. 



Original investment $ 5,000.00 



Debt 5,000.00 



Interest due 300.00 



$17,300.00 



10,300.00 



Balance $ 7,000.00 



INVESTIGATES IRRIGATION DROPS 



Justin T. Kingdon is making an investigation 

 of vertical and incline drops in irrigation systems 

 and their respective values. While working around 

 Boise, Idaho, recently, he said he had been engaged 

 in this work for the past irrigation season, and it 

 will take until about the first of the year to com- 

 plete his work. There is little or no information 

 of a technical character in existence on the subject 

 of irrigation drops, and the Department of Agri- 

 culture, realizing the necessity for reliable data 

 along this line, ordered the investigation by Mr. 

 Kingdon. 



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