17. Q. I want to leave city life to get a farm, preferably for grain or fruit, in California, Virginia or some Southern state. But as it would all have to be learned one would do as well as another. I have $2000 but very limited experience.

A. With your limited capital and experience your wisest course is to work on a good farm for two or three years, meanwhile attending a short winter course at an agricultural college if possible. Get to the locality that interests you as soon as you can to familiarize yourself with local conditions and methods before attempting to buy a farm of your own.

18. Q. Please tell me something about land, prices, farming, etc., in Kentucky.

A. Agriculturally there are five distinct regions. The eastern portion, mountainous, wooded, and containing a variety of soils, with poor highways and few railroads, is adapted chiefly to mining and lumbering, with limited farming on some of the fertile bottom lands. The low foothills of the southern section have a similar wide range of soil conditions and are also but slightly developed. In both regions land costs from $5 to $35. The "blue-grass country" of the northern and central counties is a rolling plateau of residual limestone soils, which by careful management have been kept highly fertile. This is preeminently stock raising land though corn, hay, wheat, flax, fruit, vegetables, and light Burley tobacco are profitable crops. The fine roads, good schools, marketing facilities, and successful agriculture make this the richest part of the state. Farms cost from $50 to $150 or more per acre. The heavier alluvial soils of the west central section, along the Ohio and Green rivers, produce large amounts of dark "export" tobacco, corn, grasses and truck crops. Drainage is a more important factor than in the uplands and prices average slightly lower. In the southwest, heavy red clay soils predominate permitting a generalized agriculture.

The seasonal variations of temperature are more extreme than in states of the same latitude nearer the Atlantic, but the growing season and rainfall are favorable. Kentucky should and probably will witness a great development of animal industry. There is practically no "raw" land now available but much that can be bought for from $15 to $30 per acre has never been carefully farmed and promises good returns. Write to Commissioner of Agriculture Hubert Vreeland, Frankfort, for a handbook of the state.

19. Q. Where can I obtain reliable information about the swamp lands of eastern Missouri?

A. The State Board of Agriculture at Columbia, and the Board of Statistics and the Swamp Lands Reclamation Department, both at Jefferson City can supply facts and data. The State Agricultural Col

lege at Columbia can tell you about the agricultural conditions. The following railroad Agricultural Commissioners have information about lands for sale: W. J. Doyle, St. Louis and Southwestern R. R., St. Louis, Mo.; L. A. Markham, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, Little Rock, Ark.; F. S. White, St. Louis and San Francisco, Springfield, Mo.

20. Q. Can you tell me about the Panhandle section of Texas or of reliable sources of information? A. This northwest corner of the state consisting of 26 counties is a gently rolling, practically treeless, plain with occasional tracts of rough broken ground, and a general slope from 5,000 feet elevation in the northwest to about 1,700 feet in the southeast. The rainfall is from 16 to about 23 inches, and as water for irrigation is practically limited to such wells as can economically be dug, the agriculture will depend chiefly upon dry farming methods and droughtresistant crops. The Reconnoissance Soil Survey of the Panhandle Region of Texas, 1910 of the U. S. Bureau of Soils, Washington, DC., Farmers' Bulletin 266 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Bulletin No. 12 of the Texas Department of Agriculture at Austin contain comprehensive descriptions.

21. Q. Will you tell me about the Mountain Home irrigation project in Idaho, as to water supply, climate, markets, farming, etc?

A. Mountain Home, as the only large town between Shoshone and Nampa, is the centre of a rich agricultural district, and an important distributing point. The soils and climate are well adapted to fruit raising and high grade, intensive farming. The average annual rainfall of 13 inches makes irrigation essential; the average annual temperature is 55 degrees F., the recorded extremes are 115 degrees F. and -5 degrees F., and the average dates of the first and last killing frosts are October 20th and April 17th.

There are over 500,000 acres of government land yet unappropriated. Water rights cost about $35 per acre and improved land can be bought for from $50 to $150. The local irrigation project is operated under the Carey Act by the Kings Hill Irrigation and Power Company and the Kings Extension Power Company, both with offices at Butte. The acreages involved are 12,000 and 9,455 respectively of which there were a short time ago 2,000 and 255 acres yet unsold at $65 per acre. This can be paid in ten annual installments. The water supply is the Malad River and according to Government reports is entirely ample. The plans provide for a continuous supply of water throughout the year and the whole project appears perfectly sound and reliable. Read Bulletin 216, Office of Experiment Stations, Washington, D. C., in this connection.