762 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



scientific data pertaining to irrigated farming. In like manner the 

 increasing demand for reliable information on the i)art of the fruit 

 and truck growers of the humid region who have either installed 

 or contemplate installing irrigation plants should not be allowed to 

 withdraw much-needed funds from the arid region. The plan of 

 placing an expert permanently in charge of the work in each western 

 State, adoi)(ed a few years ago but not extended to all the arid States 

 for lack of funds, has proven a most efficient means of carrying on 

 these investigations. It would now seem advisable to establish an 

 agency of this kind in each western State, as well as a limited number 

 in the irrigated rice fields of the Gulf States and in the fruit and 

 truck districts of the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi Valley. 

 This will require an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1912. 



DRAINAGE INVESTIGATIONS. 



Mr. C. G. Elliott continues to have charge of the Drainage Investi- 

 gations of this Office. 



During the past year the unfinished drainage projects of the year 

 previous have been completed and many new projects and investiga- 

 tions taken up. A summary of the work done embraces surveys, 

 working plans and profiles, and reports made for these various drain- 

 age districts, which may be classed as follows: 



DRAINAGE SURVEYS. 



I. Reclamation of lands subject to overflow, as hy floods. — Arkan- 

 sas: St. Francis Basin, Black River Levee. Iowa: Big Sioux River, 

 Des Moines River. Kansas : Cottonwood River, Kansas River, Little 

 Caney River, Marais des Cygnes. Mississippi: Tuscumbia River 

 (Alcorn and Prentiss counties). Missouri: Grand River, vicinity of 

 Pattonsburg (Daviess County). Nebraska: Salt Creek, Wahoo 

 Creek, Nemaha River. North Carolina : Pungo River, Pantego 

 Creek, Broad Creek, Lower Creek (Burke and Caldwell counties). 

 Oklahoma: Deep Fork of Canadian River (Lincoln and Okmulgee 

 counties). Texas: Chambers Creek (Ellis County Drainage District 

 No. 1). _ 



IT. Reclamation of lands continually wet — swamps, marshes, etc. — 

 North Carolina : Lyon Swamp and Cape Fear River, Lake Phelps, 

 lands lying between Albemarle and Pamlico sounds (Beaufort, Wash- 

 ington, and Hyde counties), Orton Plantation (Brunswick County), 

 Smith Plantation (New Hanover County). Virginia: Berkeley 

 Swamp. 



III. Improvement of natural water courses or construction of new 

 channels to provide outlets. — Arkansas: Cury Ba^^ou. Kentucky: 

 Canoe Creek (Sellars Ditch). North Carolina: Belvidere Swamp. 

 South Carolina : Hopkins District. 



IV. Farm drainage. — Arkansas: State Normal School Farm (Con- 

 way). Delaware: Redden Farm (Sussex County). Indiana: Jaqua 

 Farms (2) (Jay County). Iowa: Huston Farm (Lee County). Ken- 

 tucky: Marrs Farm (Henderson County), Rankin Farm (Henderson 

 County). Louisiana: Knox Plantation (East Baton Rouge Parish). 

 Maryland: Marine Corps Rifle Range (Charles County), Sewall 

 Tract (Montgomery County), Baltimore County High School Tract, 



