. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . 236 237 artesian wells or artificial storage reservoirs furnish largesupplies of water. Someone has illustrated the limita-tions of irrigation in the great arid West by comparingthe whole droughty plains and intermountain areas inwhich the rainfall is light to a twenty-acre field withone furrow
. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . 236 237 artesian wells or artificial storage reservoirs furnish largesupplies of water. Someone has illustrated the limita-tions of irrigation in the great arid West by comparingthe whole droughty plains and intermountain areas inwhich the rainfall is light to a twenty-acre field withone furrow plowed across it, the furrow representing. Figure i;;:t. Portable eiiKim d for puniphiy water fcir lloniliiit; lice lieUts in Texas. that proportion of the whole for which the water is avail-able for irrigation. The semi-arid area on which dry-land farming must be carried on is very extensive, andfarm management there must be planned to conserve,for the use of crops, the small amount of water annuallyprecipitated. In many places the windmill, or steam orgasoline engine to pump water from wells upon limitedareas, as near buildings, will help make possible thedevelopment of a homelike farmstead on large ranch-like 2^8 FARM DEVELOPMENT farms in semi-arid regions, and will give some foodfor man and beast, even in the exceptional years ofleast rainfall, and will help make the farm pav in all3-ears. In regions like Minnesota, on the other hand, the manystreams, the thousands of lakes, the large quantities ofavailable well water, the less amounts of water requiredfor irrigation where the rainfall is nearly sufficient, andthe possibil
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