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improved immensely since the California methods were per- 

 fected. Every fruit-grower realizes that the profit in his 

 business comes mostly from the first grade of fruit. Scien- 

 tific irrigation makes it possible for him largely to increase 

 the percentage of the best fruit, and the difference which 

 this makes in the earning capacity of his acres is surprising. 



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Other methods of furrow irrigation have been devised 

 which are scarcely less perfect than those used in the Cali- 

 fornia orange districts. One of the best of these is the re- 

 sult of the labors and experiments of Professor A. E. Blount, 

 of the Agricultural College at Las Cruces, New Mexico, and 

 is illustrated in the accompanying diagram. In this case the 

 water is carried in small open ditches, and the furrows are 



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