The Springfield herald., 1914-05-01
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uuCUlNetleSS Vi Ulle lulu. Ii ypI
extend your tour into the rural
districts, you will see ma y
things, such as fine stock, iu
proved farms, school buildings,
and IL lot of happy, contenteo
people, to convince you that you
are travelling through no desert.
Irrigation and dry land
farming are two factors that
have been pre- eminent in the de-
velopment of this country. In
many places it is possible to irri
gate from streams or wells.
(, Under irrigation, alfalfa, wheat,
oats, corn, vegetables and nearly
all other temperate zone plants
thrive.
AS the great part of this re-
giOn is not subject to irrigation,
but depends upon dry and farm
,ns, this is wha, we shall now
speak of.
! Many people, especially those
OF the east, imagine that less
than thirty or forty inches of
rainfall will not produce IL prof
j liable crop. They are mistaken.
They do not realize that in the
east more rain falls than is or
can be used. Saving or con
serving moisture is unknown to
them. The fact has been dem-
onstrated time after time in
the west that profitable crops
can be produced with less than
twenty inches OF rainfall. BY
proper tillage, and the planting
of drouth resistant crops, the
Great American Desert is made
to bloom and produce like a gar
den.
Some of the principal
crops grown profitably are
brOomcorn, milo maize, kaffir,
corn, cane. cowpeas, beans, and
melons.
| Wheat is rapidly coming to the
front and promises to be the
great money crop of this section.
BY proper tillage and under av-
erage conditions, it produces
from ten to thirty bushels per
acre. Milo maize, the principal
grain crop, is to the west what
corn is to the east Oats and
barley can also be grown with
profit. Corn does well at times,
but as it is not drough resis-
tant plant, as are the plants
mentioned above, very little at
tention is given it except when
grown for silage. Where irriga-
ton is possible, alfalfa is the
king crop In certain sections
on bottom land, and where wa
ter is near the surface, this crop
is grown success fully without IL
rigation. Perhaps no soil in the
world is better for alfalfa than
this.
Stool. raising is very profitable
when connected with the grow
ing of these crops. The silo is
rapidly coming into use through.
out the west, and with it comes
dairying, the cost profitable
branch Of farming.
1t would be hard to find bet
ter water or healthier climate
than we have here.
Perhaps the best place in the
southwest at the present time
to locate is southeastern Colora-
do, in Baca county. Southwest
ern Kansas and Northeastern
Oklahoma, however, offer oppor-
tunities equal in some respects
to those OF Baca county.
Consider well the above men
toned facts and you will come
to the conclusion that the south
west is the land of opportunities
for both the wealthy man and
the man with limited means.
This should appeal to the east
ern renter, :he investor, and the
laboring man who has no home
of his own. Farms, ranches, and
unimproved lands are row for
sale at from 50 to S12 per acre.
Remember that prices are sure
to increase as population and de-
mand increase.
If you want good home for
little money, one that in a few
years will be worth many times