The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-12-17
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you so to 80 per cent annually. Rented
will pay you from 20 to 80 per cent an
nually.
A sure crop every year, and the
brightest prospect Of doubling your
investment in two years or less. These
farms are located in the Box Elder
valley, northern Colorado.
There are six million dollars in
vested in sugar beet factories in this
valley. Farms are paying enormous
1y, as they have sure crop and big
one every year, ample water supply,
IA reservoirs, and more than enough.
We are selling farms in this valley at
$50 and $50 per acre, and several have
been rented during the past year at
cent on the investment. Four miles
down the valley from where these
farms are located farms are selling at
$3.50 to 5000 per acre. Twenty miles
further south in the valley, farms are
selling at from 5000 to $3.50 per acre,
paying on this valuation annually 20
per cent. Land that we are offering
is equally as valuable when fully de-
veloped and improved as the farms
that are selling at $3.50 per acre.
The crops this year will run about
as follows:
Alfalfa, 6 to s tons per acre.
Wheat, As to 65 bushels per acre.
Sugar beets, 90 to 80 tons per acre.
Oats, so to 10 bushels per acre.
Barley, IS to 1870 bushels per acre.
We have yet about 1000 acres OF
this land to sell with perpetual water
right and are of the opinion that any
one purchasing a farm in this valley
will double his money within one year
We will certainly have all this land
sold soon.
The man who has good farm in
an irrigated country, and good irri-
cation right, knows its value. He
never sells out and goes back to the
farm in the east where too much rain
or too protracted drouths distress and
disappoint. In any line of business,
certainty is the element most desired.
Farming under irrigation is the near
est approach to sure thing yet dis
covered. Some question of chance en-
tiers into almost every business cal
culation excepting into the combina-
ton of good soil, and good water.
Given these two, and mans note is
paid, his credit is established and his
bank account is assured Irrigation is
simply putting enough water on the
growing crops, at exactly the time
nj mr.
too little. That is rrigation-nothing
more and nothing less. Then, too, the
silt in the water fertilizes the soil
and renews it from year to year with
out either labor or expense. This nat
ural fertilization, and the exact
amount of moisture at the exact time
brings the greatest yield of all crops,
doubling and sometimes quadrupling
the returns over farming in the east
ern states.
Wheat, oats, barley. potatoes, sugar
beets, alfalfa, fruit, all vie with each
other in<quantity and quality. The re-
suit Is, farming by irrigation Is ideal.
and peace and plenty abound.
In comparing irrigation farming
with rainfall farming. the Wyoming
Experiment Station Bulletin on ifTi-
CATION says:
''The increase from irrigation is
sometimes four-fold and seldom less
than double. II Is estimated that II
only one acre In four could be re-
claimed 1t would stil bring the prod
uct of the arid region OF the United
States up to the product Of the bal
anec Of the country"
The clippings furnished By us speak
for themselves. for they are the story
OF the contented and prosperous farm
ers OF northern Colorado. whose lines
have fallen In pleasant places and
among whom discomfort Is unknown
and poverty never met with. II Il
probahlo that nowhere on earth are
there an many prosperous farmers nj
In that section OF which Fort Collins
In tho center.
Tho building OF tho new bitches
and the cultivation OF the new laTdl