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Lovett, and Scott, who worked under New Mexico 

 conditions, have reported that crops can be produced 

 profitably by the use of water raised to the surface for 

 irrigation. Fleming and Stoneking, who conducted 

 very careful experiments on the subject in New 

 Mexico, found that the cost of raising through one foot 

 a quantity of water corresponding to a depth of one 



Fig. 94. Dry-farm vegetable garden. Dawson Co., Montana. 



foot over one acre of land varied from a cent and an 

 eighth to nearly twenty-nine cents, with an average 

 of a little more than ten cents. This means that the 

 cost of raising enough water to cover one acre to a 

 depth of one foot through a distance of forty feet 

 would average $4.36. This includes not only the 

 cost of the fuel and supervision of the pump but the 

 actual deterioration of the j^lant. Smith investi- 



