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TO WORK 



this basin as sewage, it flows out of the other as 

 pure water. Chemical analyses and tests have 

 proved this many times over, and we might 

 take a hint from this at home to " raise our 

 darkened windows and open wide our doors, to 

 let the blessed sunshine in." It is the best 

 destroyer of disease and impurity yet discovered. 



The company's acres along the line of the 

 canal profited so much from this irrigation, 

 that farmers soon began to purchase the irri- 

 gating sewage water for use on their forage crop 

 fields, and for root crops particularly. The 

 solids are spread on the surface of the lands 

 upon which the clear, purified water is to be used, 

 and the results have been most satisfactory. 

 San Antonio really makes a profit out of that 

 which is costing other cities millions every year, 

 and in doing this has shown us another way to 

 work, in bringing into use all lands that are 

 available in any way for intensive cultivation. 



Plenty of manure and thorough cultivation 

 are almost a complete protection against drought. 

 If you have plowed deep, manured thoroughly, 

 added humus and maintained tUlage, you 

 can laugh at the drought that would once have 

 spelled ruin for the farmer in any part of 

 the country. You have been told this before 

 in this very book, but that is no reason why it 



