La Junta tribune., 1910-08-20

Water Usefs' assnriat3oo sad was 10
rueuttai In getting congress 10 starr
the Salt river irrixarioo peojsct Gov.
srumen' ,rr,Rnfiou iDssr~a p.smaneni
prosperity tot the Aat rivss valley.
and t"iay this pioss&~s farmer who
set oui TO make = fortune ln -the
great Americau de.ert'' v wostb more
than s.sUOlO
Succ-ss In the irrigated diatricts II
10, Us..~-sariiy nessnrssi 10 extensive
farms and large bank aecounu A
few years ago = tos.0mOsivs engineer.
sixty years old and broken In health.
moved from Minneapolis b the state
OF Washington He busught IN acre
Of Irrigated iand. payiux 81. 400 for IL
u contained an apple osrhard III poor
condition. = house ana . few dllnp
dated outbuildiugs. The purchase Of
the land took Deariy ali the old en-.
apple trees and set out thirty ue~
ones He sold Oh . few mongrei
chickens that were on the place and
bought a pure bred rooster and three
hens After the INST years expenses
were paid he had enough money left
10 put on many improvements The
next year be put money In the bank.
and the year after So well did the
acre produce thar at the Lewis and
Clark exposition AT Portland In 1905
II was awarded the prize for the sec
ond most productive and best man
aged farm IN the west
II is Instances like this that really
show the possibilities OF the farm for
tn. average man Few men can be-
come great cattle kings. and not many
I can repeat the success OF David Ran
/ kin or Colonel Smith. But the success
I OF the old engineer on his one acre Of
| irrigated farm land ought not TO be so
hard to duplicate
! There are men who say land Is 40
| high that there Is little chance for the
man with small capital to get n start
/ Notwithstanding this more young men
/ are buying farms every year A
/ dozen years or so ago young German
who had been working by the day In
| northern Iowa decided to get married.
/ After the ceremony his chief posses
sions. In addition to capable wife.
were horse and buggy and $50 in
cash He rented farm and bought
] n grade percherop mare The prices
. he received for his FIRST few colts open
/ ed his eyes TO the profits OF the horse
| business He bought some more
/ mares. pure breds this time He made
[ money from the start and has nearly
enough money laid by to buy and pay
I for the farm he has been working
| Another young farmer In northern
| Iowa went into the dairy business
six or seven years ago. Dairying was
rather u new thing 10 his part OF the
country then Most farmers preferred
to raise corn. where they could do
most OF the work 10y machinery. Much
OF the land AT that time was badly In
need OF drainage aud was better suited
Z to pasture than TO corn growing A
/ few wet seasons reduced the prodts
/ of the coru growers almost to the van
lsh!ng point The young fellow .Vho
had put his faith In dairy cows i'm
gled milk pals and put money in the
bank. After n few years OF milking
he bought the farm he was working
and paid half cash. The mortgage
cannot last long In the face OF pros
perinE dairy business.
The average farmer OF the middle
west doesn't ike to think OF farming
anything less than . quarter section.
An eighty or q forty he considers
rather small business" Nevertheless
there are many advantages In the
smaller farms. The hired help prob
lem In solved. for the owner can do
all the work himself II Is much
easier for a maD with limited capital
to buy . small farm. aud the cost Of
stocking and eauipping h less
Z, &. BeadIe Of Nebraska is one Of
the corn belt farmers who II making