. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. concentrated in getting the wa-ter upon a sufficient area of irrigableland in each project to put it on a reve-nue-producing basis. To bring all theprojects to this point will require up-wards of $40,000,000, which amount, itis estimated, will be available from thereceipts from the disposal of publiclands for the years 1901-1908. The pressing danger just now springsfrom the desire of nearly every man toget and hold as much land as he can,whether he can handle it profitably ornot, and whether or not it is for theinterest of the community
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. concentrated in getting the wa-ter upon a sufficient area of irrigableland in each project to put it on a reve-nue-producing basis. To bring all theprojects to this point will require up-wards of $40,000,000, which amount, itis estimated, will be available from thereceipts from the disposal of publiclands for the years 1901-1908. The pressing danger just now springsfrom the desire of nearly every man toget and hold as much land as he can,whether he can handle it profitably ornot, and whether or not it is for theinterest of the community that he shouldhave it. The prosperity of the presentirrigated areas came from the subdi-vision of the land and the consequentmtensive cultivation. With an adequatesupply of water, a farm of five acres insome parts of the arid west, or of 40acres elsewhere, is as large as may besuccessfully tilled by one family. When,therefore, a man attempts to hold 160acres of land completely irrigated bygovernment work, he is preventing oth-ers from acquiring a WM. BATCHELORS NEW SEEDLING COLEUS AT TTHE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. Lenves light yellow in center wiih broad gretn 990 The American Florist, Dec. IS
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