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<br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />OJ1224 <br /> <br />associated livestock and dairy industries. According to the 1940 irri- <br /> <br /> <br />gation census for Colorado, the total irrigated area in Las Animas County <br /> <br /> <br />was 30)487 acres. The State Engineer's records for 1941 show 20,724 acres <br /> <br /> <br />as irrigated in the project area. The remainder of the irrigated acre- <br /> <br /> <br />age in the county, about 9,800 acres, is located above the Trinidad Res- <br /> <br /> <br />ervoir site, and on the tributaries to the Purgatoire above Alfalfa, <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado. The project area of 19,500 acres of irrigated land, used in <br /> <br /> <br />this report, represents the area of land consistent~ irrigated from year <br /> <br /> <br />to year. <br /> <br /> <br />,S. The principal irrigated crops in the project area are alfalfa, <br /> <br /> <br />beans, corn, Wheat, oats, barley and sugar beets. Garden truck is pro- <br /> <br /> <br />duced to a limited extent. The average acreage distribution and yields <br /> <br /> <br />of these principal crops for the period 1929 to 1940 is shown in table <br />1. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />,9. The irrigated lands in the county and outside the project <br /> <br /> <br />area consist of innumerable small isolated tracts, with unreliable water <br /> <br /> <br />supplies. Crop production consists of wild hay and pasture with only a <br /> <br /> <br />vory limited acreage of cultivated crops. <br /> <br /> <br />60. Land use--dry-land farming. - Since the beginning of settle- <br /> <br /> <br />ment of Las Animas County in the latter part of the nineteenth century, <br /> <br /> <br />dry-land farming has played an important part in the economic welfare <br />