Pacific service magazine . lden State there arelong sweeping valleys of astonish-ing fertility that call for but in-telligent cultivation to yield re-turns in boundless science has pointed theway to intelligent cultivation and,given protection against DameNatures eccentricities, the Cali-fornia farmer can go his way con-tented. His protection, then, liesin irrigation, in the arid sections,and in reclamation in certainother sections of the country wherethe water supply promises to be tooabundant at certain seasons of the year. Irrigation is not a new thing; neither isreclamatio
Pacific service magazine . lden State there arelong sweeping valleys of astonish-ing fertility that call for but in-telligent cultivation to yield re-turns in boundless science has pointed theway to intelligent cultivation and,given protection against DameNatures eccentricities, the Cali-fornia farmer can go his way con-tented. His protection, then, liesin irrigation, in the arid sections,and in reclamation in certainother sections of the country wherethe water supply promises to be tooabundant at certain seasons of the year. Irrigation is not a new thing; neither isreclamation; but both sources of prosperityto the tiller of the soil in California were,to all practical purposes, uncertain quanti-ties until that great upbuilder, that great-est of all developers, cheap electric power,was made available, and the legend, elec-tricity on the farm, came to be generallyinscribed on the banner of interior develop-ment. It should not be necessary to remind ourreaders that the use of hydro-electric power.
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