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very fact that it can never be escaped from, makes it in 
the long run more costly to grow fruit in that way than it 
is to grow it in a non-irrigated district, where the expense 
of providing a reserve supply of water is an expense 
incurred once for all, and an expense which requires an 
incomparably smaller amount of capital, as the works 
for storage and distribution are always on a very much 
smaller and less elaborate scale. The rancher should 
place his main reliance upon thorough and properly 
executed cultivation, no matter which kind of district 
his orchard is situated in. Fruit of equally fine quality 
is grown under both sets of conditions, as the results at 
the principal great apple shows clearly and unmis- 
takably demonstrate, especially when the extent of the 
areas drawn upon in the two different kinds of orcharding 
are properly taken into account and duly allowed for. 
