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The general farmer will succeed better if he 

 keeps stock and markets his crops on foiir feet. 



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IBBIGATION 



Our soil culture directions for dry farming 

 pertain as well to irrigation, except the summer- 

 fallow, which is unnecessary, with plenty of 

 water to be applied when and where needed. 

 With water and advanced knowledge of how to 

 maintain soil fertility, there is no need of letting 

 any land rest from crop production. Soil cul- 

 ture needs to be given careful and intelligent 

 consideration and special systems are being 

 worked out for the separate intensive crops. 

 Plowing need not be done so deep at first and on 

 some soils shallow plowing may give better re- 

 siilts than deep plowing. More attention needs 

 to be given to leveling and smoothing the land, 

 where irrigation is practiced. The right kind 

 of land preparation is a permanent improvement 

 which pays from the first because it saves much 

 future expense and trouble. Irrigation farming 

 is a "new agriculture" in the West, and a man 

 needs to know it in order to meet with the suc- 

 cess which should crown his efforts. On the 

 same soils and under the same conditions the 

 man who knows how will get fifty bushels of 

 wheat while the one who does not will get twenty- 

 five bushels. Right culture will, give one man 

 300 sacks of potatoes per acre and wrong culture 

 another man 50 sacks per acre. There is a con- 

 siderable profit to the man who gets 300 sacks of 



