Resources of Montana . LAND OF OPPORTUNITY a. Typical Valley County Farm Home reclaimed in the future will be under the cooperative district enterprises. Accordingto Bulletin No. 103 of the Montana Agricultural Experiment station, an irrigated areain Montana of 7,000,000 acres will require a population depending upon it and its tradeand allied industries of from 500,000 to 700,000; in other words, a population nearlyas large as the present total population of the state. Operation of an irrigated farm is more costly than operation of a non-irrigatedfarm, but the average returns from the irrigat
Resources of Montana . LAND OF OPPORTUNITY a. Typical Valley County Farm Home reclaimed in the future will be under the cooperative district enterprises. Accordingto Bulletin No. 103 of the Montana Agricultural Experiment station, an irrigated areain Montana of 7,000,000 acres will require a population depending upon it and its tradeand allied industries of from 500,000 to 700,000; in other words, a population nearlyas large as the present total population of the state. Operation of an irrigated farm is more costly than operation of a non-irrigatedfarm, but the average returns from the irrigated farm are virtually double those fromthe non-irrigated farm. In the dry season of 1919 returns per acre from irrigated landin Montana were five times as large as returns from non-irrigated land, according toreports from the federal reclamation projects. In size the irrigated farm is usuallysmaller than the non-irrigated one because a more intensive system of farming isfollowed. It is safe to say that at present an acre of irrigated land is
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