Irrigation Farmer from Ottawa, Kansas • 4

4 THE IRRIGATION FARMER. The Irrigation Farmer. who cannot and does not irrigate a few acres this season is all kinds of a chump. H. B.

Davis, of Omaha, is inter-ested in a company that is contemplating the construction of a reservoir in Colorado which will was sold $400 worth of products- I per acre. The gross receipts of the forty acres was $16,000. Of this is an extraordinary instance, but if $16,000 worth of stuff can be grown from forty acres, any man ought to be able to make a goods living from two to five acres. Published monthly, devoted to the cause of Irrigation for the Great Plains, BY y. L.

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Irrigation Association Directory. Great Britain has $33,000,000 invested in irrigation works in Madras, India, which water 6,000,000 acres of land. This seems like an enormous sum, but in 1890 the crop value amounted to $80,000,000, so that it can be seen to be a paying investment. There are 30,000 wells irrigating 3,000,000 acres in this one state of India. Pukwana (S.

Press. A Chicago lawyer of a cynical disposition thus defines a promoter: "One who sells nothing for something to a man who thinks he is getting something for nothing." This definition can be very appropriately applied to a good many of our theoretical irrigationists who are selling bonds or stock in western enterprises. The best irrigation in the west, the surest and safest today, is a good windmill. INTER STATE ASSOCIATION. Officers.

E. R. Moses J. L. Bristow Secretary Frank Hageman Treasurer Executive Committee.

E. R. Great Bend, Kan J. L. Bristow Ottawa, Kan J.

S. Emery Lawrence, Kan A. W. Stubbs City, Kan J. K.

Wright Junction City, Kan B. A. McAllaster Omaha, Neb J. E. Frost Topeka, Kan R.

Harding Grand Forks, N. Dak Prof. Robert Hay Junction City, Kan I. A. Fort Platte, Neb G.

W. Clement Wichita, Kan Thomas Knight Kansas City, Mo Alston Ellis Fort Collins, Col Headquarters Ottawa, Kansas. STATE BOARD OF IRRIGATION. D. M.

Frost, President Garden City W. B. Sutton, Secretary Russell M. B. Tomblin H.

V. Hinckley, Consulting Topeka Nebraska is giving a great deal; of attention to the beet sugar industry and it has proved to be quite-profitable. In 1S91 there were-8000 tons of sugar beets raised in that state; in 1892, 10,700 tons; in 1893, 22,625 tons; in l894i 25 633-tons. We have been uable to se-sure the statistics for 1895 as yety. but they will doubtless sho'w an equal increase.

Another thing very gratifying is that beets are very fertile with sugar, but their fertility varies each year. In 1891 they averaged 161 pounds of sugar to the-ton; in 1892, 157 pounds; in 1893, 181 pounds, and in 1895 an extremely dry year they averaged' 218 pounds of sugar to the ton. Judge N. H. Stidger is one of the most active irrigators in this part of the country, and much of the success in that line in this immediate neighborhood is due to his-untiring investigation and experimenting, not only in the best methods of economically applying" moisture, but in ascertaining what plants, shrubs and trees can be most profitably grown in this climate, and whenever away from home he is always casting about fdr something-to add to the many choice selections that already adorn his elegant grounds.

On his recent trip to Texas he secured a number of new trees, including magnolias, Japanese persimmons, evergreens, with-the growth of which he will experiment. Ness City (Kan.) News. KANSAS IRRIGATION ASSOCIATION. Officers. D.

M. Frost, President Garden City E. B. Secretary-Treasurer Vice Presidents J. E.

Frost G. W. Clement Wichita W. B. Sutton Russell L.

A. Bigger Hutchinson H. V. Hinckley, Consulting Engineer Topeka Executive Committee J. E.

Frost, Chairman Topeka H. V. Hinckley, E. R. Moses City J.

L. Ottawa W.X, Edwards Lamed J. B. Brown Hutchinson J. S.

Emory Lawrence G. G. Gilbert Dodge City W. A. Smith J.

Gregory Garden City C. T. Vinson F. D. Coburn Topeka Ex officio The President.

hold enough water to irrigate acres. The State Board of Irrigation has determined to locate a number of other wells for the purpose of testing the underflow. They also expect to publish a pamphlet report of 10,000 copies. Irrigation is not only growing in favor in Kansas and upon the semi-arid plains of the west, but all over the United States. A North Carolina correspondent, writing to an agricultural paper published in New York, some weeks since, said that "the South needs irrigation." What the oasis is to the Sahara desert so will your irrigated garden be to your farm when the hot winds begin to blow next July; and the hot winds will blow over every acre of ground between the ninety-eighth meridian and the Rocky mountains next summer.

They always have and they always will. The Julesburg Sentinel very wisely says that the strongest argument in favor of windmill irrigation is that the man who has a windmill irrigation plant never leaves that country. There is no record of any man who has a plant that will water a half acre of ground, ever having deserted the west. C. C.

Bevard, near Holyoke, will irrigate this year from a well 143 feet deep. His pump has a four and a half inch pipe and a four inch cylinder. He will use a sixteen foot windmill and figures on raising twenty gallons of water per minute. He has constructed a reservoir eighty feet in diameter and eight feet in depth. The Register, published at Chamberlain, S.

makes the following very forcible suggestion. It says it is all right to go on talking about irrigation and putting in irrigation plants, but there is another kind of irrigation which many farmers in that country needs, and that is "irrigation by the plow and hoe." Irrigation without cultivation is a waste of labor. A Texas paper that is a very strong advocate of irrigation, says that potatoes can be grown in early spring" and shipped north, and that they will readily command ten cents per pound: tomatoes, fifty cents per gallon; peaches, five cents each; peas, fifty cents a quart; roasting ears, twenty cents a dozen; raspberries and strawberries, fifty cents per quart; asparagus fifty to seventy-five cents per bunch. KANSAS IRRIGATION COMMISSION. J.

W. Gregory, Garden City F. D. Coburn, Secretary-Treasurer Topeka A. B.

Montgomery Goodland Moses Great Bend W. B. Sutton Russell H. V. Hinckley, Consulting Engineer, NEBRASKA STATE ASSOCIATION.

Officers. I. A. Fort, President North Platte P. Mortensen, Treasurer Ord J.

G. P. Hildebrand, Secretary Lincoln Executive Committee M. R. B.

Howell Omaha D. Zimmerman Haigler D. II. Cronin O'Neil E. M.

Searl Ogalalla Headquarters North Platte. William Papke, a prosperous German farmer living near Pukwana, S. experimented last year with deep plowing. He plowed part of his field ten inches deep and the remainder about five inches. He then sowed it to spring wheat.

Last season was a very dry one in that part of the country, and the result was that he harvested twenty-eight bushels per acre on the deep plowed soil and thirteen bushels per acre from the other. Those who can irrigate a small garden, keep from four to" ten good cows and about two good brood sows, can live here in comfortable shape. Then he wants to put in about one hundred acres of wheat, some oats, cane and millet to feed to his stock and then if the wheat fails he is able to keep out of debt and live, and if he gets a wheat crop he is that much ahead. It will not do to depend on any one thing, but a little of everything, and take care of that- little. Oakley (Kansas) Graphic.

The New York Post says that western farmers in the state of New York are contemplating extensive irrigation of their small fruit farms especially their vineyards. When they begin to irrigate in western New York it certainly ought to be encouraging to those living upon the great plains. One acre well irrigated in Western Kansas, Nebraska or eastern Colorado will produce as much as two acres, irrigated or unirrigated, in western New York. The climate and soil are especially adapted to the growth of vegetation by An irrigation enthusiast declares that an acre of land upon the great plains, properly will produce forty bushels of stawberries, 750 bushels of potatoes or 1000 bushels of onions. He refers to a tract of forty acres in Colorado which was carefully cultivated under irrigation last year, and from-which Quite a number of the farmers built reservoirs last summer, and they are now soaking up as much ground as they can for next year's-crop.

Those who were in shape to irrigate any last winter say if the ground is thoroughly soaked in winter that it will grow a crop-without any other moisture. It certainly will take but little fain or irrigation to insure a crop on such-land. Every farmer who has a-a windmill can easily wet five acres this winter without any other expense than the labor necessary to build a reservoir. That five acres in crop will support him if he takes-care of it, and he can farm the balance of his land or not" as he pleases. Lodge Pole (Neb.) Express.

The Leavenworth Times suggests-that Kansas is becoming very well informed upon the theory of irrigation, but it is wonderful what progress has been made in the last-three years along this line. Kansas is a wonderful state; her people are endowed with extraordinary JANUARY, 1896. FOR EVERYBODY. The Farmer will give a prize of $5 in cash to the man or woman who will send us the best description of their windmill irrigation plant, giving also an account of the crops grown and their methods of cultiva ting and irrigating the same. The articles are to be limited to five hundred words.

Prepare your article and send it to us at once. Any inquiries will be promptly answered. Address The Irrigation Farmer, Ottawa, Kansas. Lamed, has a man who raised last year on three and one-half acres of ground 2000 bushels of onions. The Hutchinson News very aptly says that the western Kansas farmer.