. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. WINTER IRRIGATION, OR FLOOD- ING. There is not a farmer of extensive experi- ence in California but what will admit that if the large majority of our dry soils were once thoroughly saturated in \vinter by flooding with water, they would produce good crops of grain with the addition of what rain falls dur- ing our driest seasons. There is no (juestion about the jjracticability of filling the soil with water where it can be obtained without great cost. We know tha
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. WINTER IRRIGATION, OR FLOOD- ING. There is not a farmer of extensive experi- ence in California but what will admit that if the large majority of our dry soils were once thoroughly saturated in \vinter by flooding with water, they would produce good crops of grain with the addition of what rain falls dur- ing our driest seasons. There is no (juestion about the jjracticability of filling the soil with water where it can be obtained without great cost. We know that in many localities water is allowed to run to waste that could be cheaply turned in ditches upon and led over the farms. The same farms would not now sell for one half they would bring if crops were made sure in dry seasons, and with a system of winter irrigation these same farms could be made to yield three times what they now do on an average. We have wiitten a good deal upon this very STibject first and last, but find it necessary to continually harp upon whatever subject is not popular enough to be generally adopted. We are satisfied that were a general system of irrigation once appreciated in California, it would nearly double the productive capacity of our State, and be worth untold millions to our people. Why our farmers do not combine more generally and utilize the valuable water that is now allowed to run to waste, can only be because of a stupidity hardly pardonable. There ought to be a "revival" in farming matters, a grand waking up and taking hold of the right end of things in this State, some- thing better than the lazy method inherited from the slothful ranchers of the early days. 'ââ ^1 1^ ^ FENCING THE FARM. We believe in the justice of the no-fence lawâthat is, in a law that does not compel a farmer to fence his laud against another per- son's stock. But, at the same time, we believe that every good farmer should have his farm well fenced into fi
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