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he Lad been in the habit of purchasing for cash. He ob- 

 tained an inexpensive pumping -plant and engaged the ser- 

 vices of a practised irrigator. The result was the saving of 

 an annual expenditure of fifteen thousand dollars for farm 

 products, so that the irrigation system more than paid for it- 

 self the first year. Dr. Gapen has stated that the experiment 

 convinced him " that if land is worth one hundred dollars 

 per acre in Illinois without irrigation, it is worth five hundred 

 dollars with it." If this enterprising official had suggested 

 ten years before that irrigation was necessary in Illinois, lie 

 would have been regarded as a proper subject for one of the 

 padded cells in his own asylum. 



The local application of irrigation is now frequently dis- 

 cussed in the farm journals of Ohio, New York, and other east- 

 ern States. The art has been employed for a number of years 

 in the most profitable market-gardens about Boston. The 

 western friends of irrigation have the utmost confidence that 

 during the next century their methods will be extensively 

 adopted in the East, resulting in a very great reduction of the 

 average farm unit, in the assurance of much larger and better 

 crops, and in wonderful social gains. 



