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<br />r.c <br />-' <br />C'. <br />~. <br /> <br />;.;>-~~~,' <br /> <br />1929 <br />1930 <br />1931 <br />1932 <br />1933 <br /> <br />20,834 <br />20,018 <br />10,322 <br />15,076 <br />13,571 <br /> <br />1934 <br />1935 <br />1936 <br />1937 <br />1938 <br /> <br />7,375 <br />1.4,787 <br />1.4,561 <br />15,843 <br />17,447 <br /> <br />The above figures include lands in Animas River drainage irrigated <br /> <br />from La Plata Hiver. Nevertheless, thoy appear high as the 1933 <br /> <br />classification by the Bureau of Reclamation showed only 12,655 acres <br /> <br />irrigated in the Colorado Division. Much of the land irrigated <br /> <br />receives only one early irrigation. <br /> <br />An increa,sed water supply will probably result in a some- <br /> <br />what smaller percentage in hay and a greater percentage in cash <br /> <br />crops. The county agent for La Plata County, Colorado, suggests <br /> <br />40 per cent hay, 20 per cent pasture, and 40 pCI' cent cash crops <br /> <br />with alfalfa or clover rotated with grain and row crops. The <br /> <br />,.;'<:':) <br /> <br />county agent of San Juan County, New Moxico suggests that a <br /> <br />part of the present alfalfa and wheat acreage should be changed <br /> <br />to cash crops including corn, beans, orchard, and potatoes with <br /> <br />30 per cent legJrnes, 60 per cent cereals and 10 per cent orchard, <br /> <br />potatoes, and truck crops. Of the cash crops, small fruits, <br /> <br />cannery vegetables, sugar beets and seed give some promise of <br /> <br />success if local marketing facilitios are improved. The long <br /> <br />haul to markets for the entire project will deter extensive <br /> <br />growing of cash crops even with a good water supply. <br /> <br />15 <br />