New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-10-18
ULM BROWN COUNTY. MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY OCT 49, 1911

pro rata, according to his acreage
The cost Of construction amounts u
$50 per acre and the farmer can pay
this amount in ten annual install.
ments. When these assessments ere
paid the farmer receives perpetual
water right which means that the
governments will furnish. this land
i with water forever.
| When the entire canal and ell the
accessory construction work 10 COM
pleted the management Of this irriga-
ton work will be turned over to tho
farmers themselves who are to
be organized into q so-cslled
Water Users Association. This
sssocl alton will elect board Of direc-
tors who shall then have complete
charge Of the management of The pro-
ject. Each year there il also charge
of S1.00 per acre for maintenance.
The rainfall in this region is from
8 to II inches while in Brown County
it averages from "a to % inches per
year. Without irrigation crops are
usually q failure and even with the
most scientific methods of dry farming
there will perhaps only be one good
crop in four or Eve years. The soil
here is naturally very rich and when
water is arti6cially applied this soil
becomes very prolific. For this
reason it pays to irrigate. The land
here sells from $40 to $40 per acre
without the water right. So when the
assessments are all paid up the land
usually costs from 100 to 1925 per
acre and it is easily worth more than
this because it grows such magnificent
crops.
It rains so seldom in this region
that hay can be put up dry almost
without fall, and such hay! The
alfalfa gives US three cuttings each
season, and each cutting produces
from l to II tons per acre.
1t is great when you don't have to
depend on rain, you simply plant your
crop and whenever it needs water you
just turn it on and food the fields, and
then you can almost see things grow.
Some of the main money crops in
this locality are sugar-beets, potatoes
and alfalfa. Corn and small grains
yield wonderfully we'll while thereis
also big money in all kinds OF live
stock. AT Scottsbluff there ID an
immense sugar factory which utilities
big train-load of sugar beets each
day from October until about Feb
ruary. This factory runs night and
day, Sundays included.
The rural communities in this valley
out here are made up of very intel
ligent and progressive class OF far
mers. They have come here from all
over the U. S. Under irrigation the
aim is to have all farms approximately |
so acres in size because this is about
as much as one family can handle.
The profits, however, on an 80 acre
farm under irrigation are as big or
bigger than on q 16O-acre or 200 acre
farm in Minnesota because the yield is
two or three times as large. So the
farms are all small and the region is
quite thickly settled. Nearly every
district school house is meeting
place for farmers clubs, where agri-
cultural topics are discussed at least
once or twice each month except dur
ing the middle of summer.
The people are all very congenial
and very accommodating, both to one
another as we'll as to newcomers.
On account of the high price of land.
this would not be good place for
men without capital. but the farmer
who can buy the farm and has little
on the side to put into working CAPT.
tai will rapidly make big profits from
his farm.
The climate here is similar to that
Of Minnesota, only the winters are
less severe, very little snow and in
April and May there are many windy
days.
Max Pfaender, Oct. II, 1911.