LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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A feature of the coastwise trade of the Pacific rafting logs 



by sea . . . . . .181 



Shelter -belt of young Norway pine in North Dakota, 



illustrating practical forestry in a prairie region . 188 



Grove of the Sequoia gigantea grown in California to show 

 that this noble tree is worthy of cultivation. The pro- 

 genitors of these trees, now growing in California, are 

 over five thousand years old . . . .197 



At a beet -sugar factory in Minnesota . . '. 204 



Dr. S. M. Babcock, inventor of the Babcock test . . 213 



Winter school in stock-judging at Iowa Agricultural College 220 

 Cutting sugar-cane in Louisiana, near New Orleans . 229 



Prime steers raised at the Louisiana Station. They were 

 immunized from Texas fever and fed on black molasses, 

 rice bran, cottonseed meal and lespedeza hay. They 

 topped the Chicago market on sale . . . 236 



Lambs fattened at the Wyoming Station on alfalfa and 

 native hay. Students are also given object-lessons in 

 dressing animals in an attractive manner . . 245 



This wheat, in California, is growing upon soil crusted with 

 white alkali, originally a barren desert, but reclaimed 

 by a proper cultivation of the soil . . . 252 



Showing root system of the Australian salt -bush plant, a 

 fine stock food. It grows on desert lands, the roots 

 boring down through the hard-pan frequently five feet 

 for moisture . . . . . .261 



Distribution flume of a Montana irrigation system . . 268 



Opening a branch ot the Truckee - Carson system in the 

 national irrigation project, June 17, 1905 . . 277 



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