The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 41 in Egypt, Italy, the East Indies and China. No excessivemoisture, no drouth, worries the husbandman who possessesan irrigation right in a perennial stream or who has fortifiedhimself with a reservoir. Irrigation means intensive farming,it means that the land will be fertilized at the same time thatit is watered, it means certain crops and a maximum produc-tion per acre. In its perfection, agriculture by irrigation, isas distinct an advance upon the methods of agriculture
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 41 in Egypt, Italy, the East Indies and China. No excessivemoisture, no drouth, worries the husbandman who possessesan irrigation right in a perennial stream or who has fortifiedhimself with a reservoir. Irrigation means intensive farming,it means that the land will be fertilized at the same time thatit is watered, it means certain crops and a maximum produc-tion per acre. In its perfection, agriculture by irrigation, isas distinct an advance upon the methods of agriculture in themore humid states, as manufacturing with machinery is overmanual labor. When it is remembered that out of a total area of over78,000,000 acres only about a quarter million are in actualcultivation under irrigation ditches, then it will be seen thatthere is a vast opening for enterprise in reclaiming broadareas of as fertile lands as God ever created, lying under aperfect sky, and in a well nigh perfect climate. Nor is therea lack of water for reclaiming at least a portion of the vast ari
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