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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Judge Fred Wellhouse, of Leavenworth 

 county, is the most extensive and most 

 successful individual apple grower in the 

 United States. He has 1, 360 acres, planted 

 during the past twenty years, and is add- 

 ing 160 acres this year. 



The yield of wheat this year is expected 

 to be about 43,000,000 bushels, or double 

 the crop of last year. The home con- 

 sumption is supposed to be about 9,000,000 

 bushels, leaving about 34,000,000 bushels 

 for export, or 10,000,000 more than was 

 exported from the Argentine last year. If 

 it was worth fair prices it would make 

 prosperous times for Kansas. As it is 

 the people will work hard and the rail- 

 road companies will reap the principal 

 benefits. 



MONTANA. 



All crops are fine this year in the west- 

 ern part of the state. 



Billings has a new flouring mill of the 

 best modern pattern. It is one of the sev- 

 eral recently erected in the state, and all 

 of the same class. 



Two men at Terry sheared 462 sheep in 

 three minutes less than ten hours, and 

 won a wager of $100 that they could turn 

 off four hundred head in that time. 



NEBRASKA. 



Several thousand car loads of grain from 

 this and adjoining states have already been 

 contracted to go out over the Missouri, 

 Kansas and Texas road via the deep water 

 harbors of the Gulf to New York and 

 Europe. 



It is said that P. D. Armour has put an 

 expert buyer in the Omaha market who is 

 buying all the sheep offered of every de- 

 scription, and the query is, what is the 

 significance of it ? Armour does very little 

 business for fun. 



The Nebraska Farmer claims that the 

 state will have the largest and best crops 

 of all kinds ever grown there, and it pro- 

 poses to hail the advent of returning pros- 

 perity by the issue of a 32-page Stand-up- 

 for-Nebraska edition early in August. 



Rapid progress is being made on the 

 Great Eastern canal. It is intended to 

 irrigate 250, 000 acres in Nance. Platte and 

 Colfax counties. Five grading machines 

 and fifteen scrapers are at work on the 

 main canal, and five miles are completed. 



The power and irrigation canal at Craw- 

 ford is nearing completion and water has 

 already been turned in. The people of 

 the town are greatly elated over the bright 

 prospects before them and give credit that 

 is due to Mr. Chas. J. Grable, through 

 whose public spirit, energy and persever- 

 ance the work has been accomplished 

 under unusual difficulties. 



Thousands of wind mills and pumping 

 plants are being erected for the purposes 

 of irrigation. The same outfit provides 

 for many other important purposes. The 

 water may be run through the creamery 

 box, thence through the watering trough 

 in the stock yards, thence to a reservoir 

 where ice may be cut, to another one 

 where fish are grown. Indeed there are 

 many uses to which the same water may 

 be applied before it is finally turned upon 

 the soil. 



NEVADA. 



People of the Carson Valley are ear- 

 nestly considering the matter of water 

 storage in that valley, where a large area 

 of choice land can be made available at a 

 moderate expenditure. A series of four- 

 teen small reservoirs is proposed that will 

 cost about $100,000. 



N-W MEXICO. 



Wolves are killing many calves in Lin- 

 coln county, and the stockmen are rising 

 in arms against them. 



Ground has been broken for the Sisters' 

 New Sanitarium and Hospital at Las 

 Vegas. It is under contract, to cost a 

 little more than $20,000. 



Cattle men in the southern part of the 

 territory report the increase this season as 

 better than at any time since the '80' s. 

 The outlook for a prosperous year is very 

 bright. 



M. W. Mills, the pioneer orchardist of 

 Colfax county, is erecting a canning and 

 preserving factory to utilize great quan- 

 tities of fruit that he cannot afford to haul 

 thirty miles to market. It will have a 

 complete modern equipment of machinery. 



The Pecos Valley people have acted 

 wisely in securing the advice of experienced 

 men for the beet growers in that valley. 

 Mr. Austin, who as superintendent of the 

 farm operations for the Lehi, Utah, com- 

 pany was down there for three or four 

 weeks. No better adviser could well be 



