Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1910 — Where Every Drop Counts. [ARTICLE]

Where Every Drop Counts.

In the Yakima valley, Washington, where the big apples are grown, and bearing orchards sell at one thousand dolars an acre, rain is scarce. Irrigation is practiced everywhere. But now and then during the growing season a light rain will fall for a few minutes. These rains are highly prized, for irrigating water is measured closely, and served to each user in proportion to his acreage. , Last summer a fruit grower who owns forty acres of orchard was rejoicing in one of these precipitations of moisture, when one of his hired men entered the house. “Why don’t you stay in out of the rainT’ inquired the fruit-grower. “Ok, that’s all right,” replied the man. “A little dew like that doesn’t bother me a bit; I can work right along just the same.” “That Isn’t the point!” exclaimed the rancher. “Next time it rains, you come into the house. I want that water on the land!”