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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



The Spokane Chronicle don't want to 

 see the state crowded in European 

 fashion, but thinks there is ample room 

 for 200,000 more people with some money 

 and lots of hustle. 



Chinese thistles are getting too much of 

 a foothold in and around Spokane. Peo- 

 ple are too busy talking politics to devote 

 time for their extermination. 



assist the settlement of that great basin of 

 rich land in Northern Wyoming. 



AN ERROR. 



WYOMING. 



The lamb crop is unusually good this 

 year. 



Big Horn county was formally organ- 

 ized July 6. 



The first pot of cement was calcined at 

 the new works at Laramie early in July. 

 It is pronounced to be of very superior 

 quality. 



Robert Taylor, of Caspar, has a wool 

 clip this year of 560,000 pounds. He is 

 supposed to be the largest individual wool 

 grower in the country. 



The Rock Creek coal mine owners are 

 trying to induce the government to pur- 

 chase its supply of coal for the Pacific 

 coast coaling stations, instead of going to 

 British Columbia for it 



Cloud-bursts, several in succession, have 

 so damaged the Brockway ditch, near 

 Douglas, that it may have to be abandoned 

 for the year. A soaking rain soon after- 

 ward saved the crops from total destruc- 

 tion. 



The largest sale of state lands yet made 

 was at Evanston recently when lands 

 which have been occupied several years 

 under lease were sold at auction to the oc- 

 cupants for an aggregate sum of $4,335, 

 which goes to the state school fund. 



Some mischievous or malicious person 

 cut the locks on the headgates of the new 

 Cody canal in the Big Horn baisin, raised 

 the headgates and let a big head of water 

 into the canal, which was not yet well set 

 and ready for it. A break was the direct 

 consequence and a great deal of damage 

 to farms below the canal. 



One geological survey party has left 

 Sheridan to triangulate across the Big 

 Horn range into the basin, and another 

 party left simultaneously from Red 

 Lodge, Montana, carrying levels into the 

 same basin and prepared to make a 

 thorough topographical survey, the two 

 parties co-operating. It will materially 



In Mr. C. C. Hutchinsons' article on 

 "Growing Winter Grain", in the July 

 number there is reference to his work en- 

 titled " Resources of Kansas, or Fifteen 

 years experience. " A typographical error 

 made this appear as though published in 

 1891. The correct date is 1871 which is 

 twenty years earlier. Mr. Hutchinson was 

 one of the very earliest of Kansas pioneers 

 and the thriving city of Hutchinson was 

 named in his honor. 



PRACTICAL POINTS. 



Clean out your granaries and destroy 

 the vermin of every kind before putting 

 in new grain. 



Sheep and fowls are the gleaners of the 

 modern farm; they save much that would 

 be wasted without them. 



A hen that does not work for a living 

 never amounts to much, no more than a 

 man. 



Motherhood in its largest development 

 is the object sought in the profitable dairy 

 cow. 



Because poor cows will yield no profit 

 is no reason why good cows will not pay. 



Pure water is as important as pure food 

 to any kind of live stock. 



Nothing on the farm should be under so 

 complete subjection as the weeds. 



There is less danger of producing things 

 too good than not good enough. 



It is claimed that cows with thick ud- 

 ders usually give rich milk. 



Hay is most nutritious as feed when cut 

 before the seed begins to ripen. 



Breed for heavy weights in horses, no 

 matter if a ton. 



A change of food is sometimes better 

 than more food. 



It is as unprofitable to feed too much as 

 too little. 



It is pigs that are wanted in the mark- 

 ets now not hogs. 



You must begin in the stable to make 

 good butter. 



Feed, as well as breed, is necessary to 

 dairy success. 



