PULSE OF THE IRRIGATION INDUSTRY. 



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Grant was colonel of the regiment, and 

 who lived during that time in the closest 

 intimacy with him. It reports interesting 

 conversations with Grant and relates a 

 number of characteristic anecdotes. In 

 this number Elizabeth Stuart Phelps will 

 have a paper of reminiscences of Harriet 

 Beecher Stowe, who was her neighbor and 

 helpful friend in Andover, and of James 

 T. Fields, her literary adviser and pub- 

 lisher. The paper will be illustrated with 

 some rare portraits and other pictures. 



With its rubricated initials, its fifty 

 beautiful illustrations of which six are in 

 a rich photo-tint its marginal decorations 

 and interesting letter-press, the Land of 

 Sunshine, of Los Angeles, California, is 

 very much the most attractive number yet 

 issued by that progressive magazine of the 

 great Southwest. The romance and mys- 

 tery and beauty of California, Arizona and 

 New Mexico find in this handsome 

 monthly such expression as they have 

 never had before. Pictorially it is much 

 ahead of anything else in the West; and it 

 is made to be read as well as looked at. 

 Its contents are crisp, competent, charac- 

 teristic and always readable. The best 

 writers in the West (and some -of the best 

 in the East) are among its contributors. 



The second article on "The Trotting 

 Horse," by Hamilton Busbey, in the June 

 Scribner's, contains more remarkable illus- 

 trations of great trotters. Among the 

 most beautiful in this issue are Sunol, 

 Azote, and Electioneer. The great stock 

 farms of Stony Ford and Palo Alto are 

 also described and illustrated. 



The wombat is a little animal resem- 

 bling in appearance a small bear, with short 

 legs, a broad, flat back, and very short 

 tail. It eats grass and other vegetable 

 matters and is a harmless little creature, 

 shy and gentle in its habits, though it can 

 bite if very much provoked. In the May 

 "Chatterbox" there is a story of a farmer 

 who had a wombat for a pet; he took it a 

 long way into the forest in order to get rid 

 of it, but twice the little animal returned, 

 having found its way without help to its 

 adopted home. The third time the farmer 

 conveyed it across a deep and broad river, 

 and as the wombat cannot swim, he felt 

 sure he had gotten rid of the persistent 



pet; but no! the little creature soon found 

 a huge fallen tree, which lay half across 

 the stream, and crawling to the extreme 

 end, sat wistfully gazing at the departed 

 farmer. So touched was the man that he 

 paddled back again, took his fat little 

 passenger on board, and carried it home, 

 much to the delight of the children. 



[ESTES & LAURIAT, publishers, 196 

 Summer street, Boston, Mass., fifty cents 

 a year or three months for ten cents.] 



A COLORADO RANCH. 



The Wallace Ranch in Colorado is eight 

 miles east of De Beque on the south side 

 of the Grand river. It consists of 480 

 acres all in a fine state of cultivation, 

 watered by a mountain stream which fur- 

 nishes abundance of water for irrigation. 

 This stream has its source on the high 

 table mountain known as Battlement 

 Mesa. The top and sides of the mountain 

 are covered with grass and timber. The 

 grass of which there seems an almost un- 

 limited supply is used for the pasturing of 

 domestic cattle, and the timber furnishes 

 shelter for plenty of large game such as 

 elk and deer. 



From the top of a near by mountain can 

 be seen toward the east the snow-covered 

 peaks around Gunnison and Aspen, while 

 to the southwest can be seen the LaSalle 

 and Henry mountains in Utah. 



This ranch is just at the gateway where 

 the creek has forced its way through the 

 mountains and out on to the level mesas, 

 where there is fine farming land only 

 waiting the magic touch of water and cul- 

 tivation to blossom and bring forth abun- 

 dant harvests. 



The best method to grow corn in one 

 locality may not be the best in another. 

 Careful study must be given to the local 

 conditions. For this as well as for almost 

 everything else the farmer has to do, it is 

 necessary to give careful thought. 



It takes less time to keep the chickens 

 and stock healthy by preventing the 

 sickness than to cure it, and costs less, 

 too. 



A fresh cow in lambing time will beat a 

 creamery for profit. Dakota Farmer. 



Weeds are robbers of plant life. Ex- 

 terminate them. 



