346 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



"Under this act the property-owners pay one tenth and the State one third of the 

 costs. These payments are virtiially a free gift to the county, which pays the 

 remainder and thereafter must keep the road in repair, thus compelling the citizens 

 of cities and towns to hear the same hurden that is imposed upon tlie farmers. It 

 differs from the Union County road law (county-honding law) in this respect: The 

 latter compels the townshi])S where the road is located to pay one third the cost and 

 then to be taxed in common besides, thus making a double tax upon all the inhab- 

 itants of the township. The State aid law relieves them from this and imposes an 

 assessment only on those whose property is benefited, without relieving them from 

 local or county taxation; or, in other words, they are taxed in all respects the same 

 as other citizens of the township are taxed, the extra assessment being a free-will 

 offering for the benefits received. . . . 



"The provisions of the law and the manner iu which it has been enforced have 

 proved satisfactory to the people of the localities where the improA^ements are located, 

 and to others who have witnessed the practical benefits arising therefrom. The 

 rapidity with which this sentiment has increased is apparent in the demands from 

 more than half the counties in the State, from which specifications now on file rep- 

 resent enough miles of roads seeking recognition under the law to absorb the present 

 annual State allowance for 2 years in advance of the present. The demand still con- 

 tinues, and will continue as it becomes practically demonstrated that all parts of the 

 State are accessible to the operations of the law." 



The Harvey water motor, A. A. .Johnson ( Wyoming Sfa. Bui. 18, pp. 66-72, 

 figs. G). — This motor is essentially a combination of an undershot and a breast 

 wheel connected with a pump and utilizing the power of the fall in the riflies in the 

 Platte River. An illustrated description, taken largely from an article iu Irrigation 

 Age, 1894, June, is given. The motor is believed to be "a cheap, reliable, and effect- 

 ive method of taking water out of large streams for irrigation." 



Depth and capacity of drains, I, P. Roberts {Cult, and Country Gent., 1894, 

 Oct. 11, i). 735). 



Irrigation— ways and means, I, L. R. Taft (Amer. Card., 15 (1894), No. 23, pp. 

 397, 39S). — A series of articles on the main features of irrigation by windmills, etc. 



Subirrigation, L. R. Taft (Drainage Jour., 16 (1894), No. 10, p. 272). — Information 

 as to size and construction of reservoirs, tile, etc. 



Pump irrigation in Kansas (Bural New Yorker, 1894, Sept. 8, pp. 566, 567, fig. 1). — 

 Popular accounts of successful attempts at individual irrigation, using pumps and 

 windmills; also editorial comments. 



A sugar-beet harvester, Pyro (Abs. in Jour. Assoc. Anc. £lev. Gemhloux, 4 (1894), 

 No. 11, pp. 400-104, figs. 2). 



Crushing machines for potatoes, II, Ringlemann (Jour. Ayr. Prat., 58 (1894), 

 No. 38, pip- 422-425, figs. 5). 



STATISTICS. 



Annual Report of Arizona Station, 1892 ( Univ. of Arizona Rpt. 1892, pp. 35-37, 

 42-48, 51-54, 56, 64-66, 73-76). — Short reports by the director and heads of the various 

 departments of the station, the treasurer's report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1892, inventory of station property, and text of the Hatch Act. 



Report of treasurer of Arizona Station (Bpt. Bd. Regents, Univ. of Arizona, 1894, 

 pp. 11). — This is for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. 



AnnualReport of Colorado Station (Colorado Sta. Bpt. 1893, pp. ^;?).— This report 

 consists of a review of the work of the several departments and substations, together 

 with the treasurer's report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. 



AnnualReport of Kansas Station (Kansas Sta. Bpt. 1893, pp.22). — This includes 

 a financial report for the year ending June 30, 1893, an outline of the bulletins pub- 

 lished during the year, a list of previous publications, brief remarks on the work of 



