s well flooded before the seed is sown, and an unusual fall of rain. Most farmers using g a supply of water in the canal to use whensunshine, which pushes growth forward most

these canals are taken out high up a river or ows on the mountain tops in May, June, and r in the canal is most needed. The canals are et per mile, winding around hills or uneven f the ground and the stream descend rapidly miles, and at its end be 20, 50, 100, or more canals are taken out at different places, and land, so that a single main canal may irrires, for example a canal from a stream in the s of knolls, valleys, and hills, may take water farms in Eastern Colorado.

e Land Commission in 1880 that the would be all taken up by 1883. Franng; other writers and publicists also e reports show that since 1883, and 4 acres of public lands have been disrnia, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Kanana, North and South Dakota, Idaho, s of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, 00,000 acres are within the arid region the balance was located and settled I all of this was classed as "agricult

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uncertaiу v but water supply. by the deficiency of the water s by its unequal and unsuitable d plains region has, for the work of considered, upon the ground that benefited by irrigation are to be fo

The problems involved in that f whole field: These are the storage Mountains proper and in the valle the obtaining of an adequate know so as to make plans and lay out t use in the near future.

The artesian water-belt, the mo the central valley of the Dakotas comes the underflow or sheet wate the most important is the general exist in the gravel and sandy strat the central portions of the plains, openings or wells can be collected and distributed by mechanical or the testimony of Mr. George H. W to west Kansas and eastern Color this purely American application distribution of water for irrigation

apidly increase instead of diminish, as the he soil and percolation from above be added by evaporation will be replenished by the e soil, instead of wasting upon the impeneg has demonstrated that breaking the sod I eventually result in the complete saturaHably exists from the sod to the sheet water. nd other impenetrable substrata will permit own to the present water-levels, making a ude, proportionately increased by each adattraction, now almost entirely absent, will

bility of mechanical means of raising water complished by private enterprise in time to nd encouragement, and who are utterly unvernment in devising and executing a more A pumping system will permit of individual Any system dependent upon the construcIrainage, or other methods involves unavoidinducing capital to come to our relief. To be practically and economically applied will ›e reclaimed, and afford a proportionate inirpose.

EARING GRAVELS.

eastern plateau have all been formed the mountains have left on the bed filled with water, varying in thick. at Eaton, Colo. This bed of water

results have not been obtained; b in the sands of Cherry Creek a North from Denver, along the S varying depths from 8 to 30 feet feet thick at Brighton, 55 feet at and 86 feet at Evans; 100 miles s to 20 feet from the surface, in sa much smaller than at other locali sand above it.

The amount of water that may gravel, when fully saturated, has ment to be as follows: Fine san sand and fine gravel 3 gallons, co of hen's eggs 3.6 gallons. As a c lons, it will be seen that very lar water. Water is found in all the thereto in northern Colorado, east from 2 to 20 feet. Actual tests h on Lone Tree, Big Crow, Little Cedar Creeks north of the South Sand Creek, Lost Creek, Box E Little Beaver south of this river. of land known to have undergro depth from the surface is largely

7 means of electricity, has this to say

"dry farming" is not profitable; while in s of rain-fall gives good results. The reason is high, and the rain-fall uniformly distribbove-named States the temperature is much eason giving 72 per cent. of the annual rain> Texas has but 50 per cent. during the same above States will be equivalent to 20 inches heir favor due to much lower temperature. Iture in the different localities will appear ll at eight selected stations in Texas, three , Minnesota, and Nebraska. Of the annual unt that falls during the spring and summer stern Kansas, 65 per cent.; Dakota, Minnewhich it will be seen that the proportional the growing season is intermediate between ree States; and while that in western Kanbove three States, the difference in effectivece in temperature.

n-fall, it must be borne in mind that in the at liability for many seasons in a long series l to make agriculture profitable, in which ation must be procured artificially. And as will justify the investment of capital in new for furnishing water for irrigation estimates never required to furnish the whole amount ng of any particular crop.