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culture. Pear blight, which is laying a 

 heavy hand on the orchardists, will be 

 treated from the bacteriological point 

 of view by scientists who have made a 

 special study of the subject. 



Mrs. Lillian D. Clark, of Berkeley, 

 will have charge of the women's ses- 

 sions, where many problems in home 

 economics will be considered. Matters 

 of special interest to the various county 

 horticultural commissioners and in- 

 spectors will occupy the attention of 

 the delegates Monday and Tuesday, July 

 26 and 27, while the following day will 

 be devoted to a tour of the famous 

 Santa Clara Valley. Saturday, the con- 

 vention will adjourn and go to the 

 Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 

 tion at San Francisco, to view the great 

 plant exhibits in the Palace of Horti- 

 culture and to take part in the Horti- 

 cultural Day ceremonies on the Expo- 

 sition grounds. In the evening of that 

 day Dr. John Coulter, of Chicago Uni- 

 versity, will deliver an address. Many 

 hundreds of the leading orchardists and 

 farmers of the state have already noti- 

 fied the convention arrangements com- 

 mittee of their intention to be present. 

 In all, 825 conventions will meet in 

 connection with the Exposition by the 

 Golden Gate, and of these, 74 are de- 

 voted to farm and rural interests. Visit- 

 ors are welcome. 



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Live Irrigation Data 



In a booklet recently issued by Fair- 

 banks, Morse & Co., of Chicago, irriga- 

 tion projects in many parts of the 

 United States are attractively illustrated 

 and briefly described. The plants shown 

 therein are supplying water to land 

 growing crops of beets, wheat, alfalfa, 

 rice, corn and potatoes, and the land 

 irrigated is located not only in the 

 semi-arid tracts of the West, but in the 

 Southern and Eastern states. One of 

 the larger tracts mentioned is located in 

 the beet raising district of Southern 

 Kansas. To the land irrigated a 60-h.p. 

 Fairbanks-Morse oil engine belted to a 

 centrifugal pump delivers about four 

 million gallons of water per day. The 

 use of this water resulted in the yield 

 of nineteen tons of sugar beets to the 

 acre. A very good idea, both of the 

 machinery used and the character of 

 the soil irrigated, may be gained from 

 the text and illustrations in this publi- 

 cation, which is entitled "Practical Irri- 

 gation by Pumping." It will be sup- 

 plied by the publishers free of charge 

 to those interested. 



Holt Wins Nine Big Awards 



The Panama-Pacific Exposition an- 

 nounces the award of two grand prizes, 

 five medals of honor and two gold 

 medals on farm machinery to The Holt 

 Manufacturing Company, of Stockton, 

 California. All these awards indicate 

 scorings of 95 per cent or better. Grand 

 prizes are given on the Caterpillar trac- 

 tor and the Holt combined harvester. 

 Medals of honor, next in rank, are 

 awarded for the Caterpillar disc engine 

 plow. Caterpillar moldboard engine 

 plow. Caterpillar disc harrow. Cater- 

 pillar wagon and Holt wood bar engine 



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