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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



part of the Azusa water company to raise 

 the price of water during the coming sea- 

 son. There is a decided tendency all 

 through Southern California to increase 

 the water rates. 



Ontario claims to have produced the 

 biggest, heaviest, juiciest lemon ever grown 

 between the north and south poles of this 

 hemisphere. It weighs twenty-one ounces 

 and its two measurements are 14^ and 13| 

 inches respectively. Redlands denies, and 

 claims one bigger by four ounces. 



Large orders, covering practically the 

 entire season's crops, have been received 

 by the Los Nietos Walnut Growers' Asso- 

 ciation. The success of the association 

 has been gained by organization and the 

 World's Fair exhibit, which created a de- 

 mand for the California product. 



A. R. Smiley, of Redlands, offers $200 

 in five prizes to the persons in that city 

 who shall maintain the neatest and hand- 

 somest grounds during the coming year. 

 The object is to encourage the planting of 

 ornamental trees and shrubs, and thus add 

 to the attractiveness of the place. 



COLORADO. 



Some of the leading potato growers in 

 Weld county have been getting in new 

 potato seed of improved varieties. 



There is a twenty-five per cent increase 

 in the grain area of the San Luis valley, 

 and of 100 per cent in alfalfa this year. 



An ice gorge in the Rio Grande carried 

 away five bridges, and the Riverside rail- 

 road bridge was saved by the use of 

 dynamite. 



The acreage of trees planted in the 

 Grand valley is greater. than ever before 

 this year, and the stock has been better 

 selected and of better quality. 



State Engineer Sumner has issued a let- 

 ter of instructions and advice to users of 

 irrigation waters, in view of an expected 

 scarcity the present season. The snow- 

 fall has been light in the mountains. 



IDAHO. 



The Galloway ditch, near Weiser, is be- 

 ing enlarged to add to its capacity for 

 this year. 



The Statesman is advocating the organ- 

 ization of a state fair association and, of 

 course, wants it located at Boise. 



An active fight is in progress between 

 the American Falls Canal and Power Com- 

 pany and the People's Canal Company 

 for the control of the lands available for 

 irrigation near the American Falls. The 

 state appears to side with the first-named 

 company, and the Interior Department in 

 its rulings favors the state. 



Work on the canal of the Lewiston 

 Water and Power Company is progressing 

 rapidly and it is expected that water for 

 irrigation will be turned in early in June. 

 The ditch begins six miles above Asotin 

 in Washington and takes water from 

 Asotin Creek. There is an immense 

 amount of flume construction involving 

 the use of hundreds of thousands of feet 

 of good Oregon fir lumber. This is one 

 of the largest enterprises being carried on 

 in Idaho at the present time. E. H. 

 Libby is president and C. C. Van Arsdol, 

 chief engineer. 



KANSAS. 



The "Populist" weed hoe is a new in- 

 vention intended to save a man from back- 

 ache a great invention. 



Alfalfa seed has been so scarce and the 

 price so high, at Garden City, as to inter- 

 fere with the planting which was intended. 



The Wichita Eagle says "Possibly this 

 is a year in Kansas when the calamity 

 howl will have to be postponed on account 

 of rain." 



The creamery at Harper is now using 

 80,000 pounds of milk a day and its pay- 

 ments to the farmers foot up $1,000 

 monthly. 



Six inches of water fell in less than a 

 quarter of an hour in Dickinson county 

 recently. It is hardly necessary to add 

 that it gave the ground a thorough wet- 

 ting. 



The Garden City section was visited by 

 a thirty -six-hour rain with a precipitation 

 between three and four inches, wetting 

 the ground deeply so that the prospects 

 for a good crop were never better. 



A co-operative congress,for the purpose 

 of uniting the various co operative enter- 

 prises of the state into one body for edu- 

 cational, social and business advancement, 

 was held at Topeka, April, 9, 10, and 11, 

 under the auspices of the State Farmers' 

 Alliance. Many interesting papers were 

 read, a state association was organized 



