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<br />.~x <br />c, <br /> <br />some use to the farmer. Suoh rook;\' land is usually timbered. Of the <br /> <br />20,000 aores in round figures, classified as grazing, some 8,000 aores <br /> <br />of rook;\' land is estimated to contain on the average 20 good posts and <br /> <br />two oords of fuel wood per acre. This land affords sheltered dwelling <br /> <br />sites, room for oorrals and outbuildings and in its natural oondition <br /> <br />good shelter for livestock and for other uses to which the farmer would <br /> <br />not want to devote his more valuable lands. <br /> <br />Probably the amount of land outside of or above the canals that will need <br /> <br />to be purchased because of ownership in-and-out of the project will be <br /> <br />about balP..nced by some rather compact ownership units of rough grazing <br /> <br />land within the project that will not need to be purohased. Certainly <br /> <br />no more of this class of land should be purchased than is necessary. <br /> <br />This leaves, not inoluded in the foregoing classification and description, <br /> <br />about 2,534 acres of irrigated land in the developed northern part of <br /> <br />the project area that would be further developed by full irrigation under <br /> <br />the project and retained in its present ownership. <br /> <br />Since it might seem unlikely; with only some 5,534 acresunaer ditch and <br /> <br />partly or insufficiently irrigated, and now farmed by some 36 farmers; <br /> <br />that 3,000 acres of the land can be purchased, it should be explained that <br /> <br />more than half of these farmers are on now inadequate units of party ir- <br /> <br />rigated land and are unsuccessful and in distress. For the most part they <br /> <br />are the farmers who might well be resettled there when the land is fully <br /> <br />irrigated. Many of them are operating units much larger than would be <br /> <br />needed if the land were all fully irrigated, and they will sell part of <br />