But water was too scarce to do the plants justice.
Everything must be sacrificed to the cattle.

One lesson it taught me, however, and that is that no matter how much water you irrigate with, one good downpour from Nature's fertilizing watering-can is worth more than weeks of irrigation.

Rain water has a quality of its own which well or tank water cannot supply.

Plants respond to it at once by adopting a cheery, healthy aspect.

It had another equally valuable character in that it destroyed the overwhelming bugs.