12 SUGGESTIONS TO SETTLERS ON BELLE FOURCHE PROJECT. 



REPRINTS FROM YEARBOOK. 



No. 195. Successful Wheat Growing in Seniiarid Districts. 

 393. Tlie Relation of Irrigation to Dry Farming. 

 458. The Use of Small Water Supplies for Irrigation. 

 461. Dry-Land Farming in the Great Tlains Area. 

 495. Soil Mulches for Checliing Evaporation. 

 505. The Problems of an Irrigation Farmer. 



farmers' bulletins. 



138. Irrigation in Field and Garden. 



139. Emmer : A Grain for the Semiarid Regions. 

 158. How to Build Small Irrigation Ditches. 



263. Practical Information for Beginners in Irrigation. 



322. Milo as a Dry-Land Grain Crop. 



371. Drainage of Irrigated Lands. 



373. Irrigation of Alfalfa. 



382. The Adulteration of Forage-Plant Seeds. 



386. Potato Culture on Irrigated Farms of the West. 



395. Sixty-Day and Kherson Oats. 



399. Irrigation of Grain. 



404. Irrigation of Orchards. 



448. Better Grain-Sorghum Crops. 



SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



The bulletins of the South Daliota Agricultural Experiment Station may be 

 obtained by writing to the Director at Brookings, S. Dak. 



No. 101. Forage Plants. 



102. Evergreens for South Dakota. 

 104. Raspberries, Blackberries, and Dewberries. 

 110. Progress in Variety Test of Oats. 



112. The Killing of Mustard and Other Noxious Weeds in Grain Fields by 

 the Use of Iron Sulphate. 



118. Corn. 



119. Fattening Lambs. 



120. Progi-ess of Variety Test of Alfalfa. 



121. Sugar Beets in South Dakota. 



122. Creamery Butter. 



SUMMARY. 



The Belle Fourche Irrigation Project comprises about 90,000 

 acres in the southwestern part of Butte County, S. Dak. The roll- 

 ing nature of the gi'ound permits both diy and irrigated fanning. 



The temtory sun-ounding the project is an open cattle range 

 covered with a sod of native grasses. The soil is generally heavy. 



Sod land should be broken late in the spring after the grass has 

 started. Land along the bottoms may be used to advantage for corn 

 and flax on spring breaking, but ou the higher lying prairie it is 

 useless to attempt a crop the first year without irrigation. 



[Cir. 83] 



