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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



BREAKING DOWN^THE CORN STALKS. 



The Southern method of harvesting corn 

 leaves the stalks very much in the way of 

 the next plowing, and if the land has been 

 put in winter grain, as is the habit in the 

 South, there is trouble in the harvesting 

 from these stalks, as well as when the grass 

 following is to be cut and raked. An easy 

 Avay to get rid of these stalks is to run an 

 '"Acme" Pulverizing Harrow, Clod Crush- 

 er and Leveler over the field, and so break 

 down the stalks then gather them with a 

 hay rake and burn them in some conven- 

 ient place. It will save trouble ' and an- 

 noyance and will pay any farmer to get and 

 u-e it for its convenience not only for this 

 purpose, but in other ways Henry Stew- 

 art. 



The farmers of Maine have circumven- 

 ted the beef trust. They have organized 

 1,000 fresh pork and beef clubs in that 

 State, each club composed of ten members. 

 The ten farmers belonging to a club ar 1 - 

 range for a succession of butcheries. That 

 is, a hog i-s killed every so many days dur- 

 ing the winter season and (he fresh pork 

 is divided into ten parts, each family get- 

 ting one part. This does not include the 

 hams and other portions of the animal, 

 which are salted or pickled for future use. 

 The arrangement amounts to a co-operative 

 meat shop. The farmers lose nothing and 

 they get fresh pork all the time. Ex. 



A Boston man who is well-to-do, makes 

 a business of paying postage every year on 

 Christmas packages which are deposited in 

 the postoffice with insufficient postage at- 

 tached. He figures that in this way he 

 makes many people happy who would 

 otherwise feel that they had been forgot- 

 ten by their friends. 



The Texas people are ; 'saying nothing 

 and sawing wood," while the civilized 

 world is eagerly watching Alaskan devel- 

 opments, Texas mines are quietly taking 

 out ore that runs $95.59 in gold to the ton. 

 This is from the Mount Hudson mine in 



the Llano district, Texas. The Hudson 

 Gold Mining Company is pushing the 

 work, and still better results are confident- 

 ly looked for in the future. Another mine, 

 the first important gold find in the section 

 is ihe Schryver mine, about thirty miles 

 north of the Llano river, and was formerly 

 the property of a methodist minister. 



Mr. John Muir, whose name is a syno- 

 nym for the accurate and sympathetic ob- 

 servation of nature, has prepared fov the 

 Atlantic Monthly a characteristic series of 

 papers upon the Parks and Reservations 

 of the United States Government. 



He opens a series in the January num- 

 ber with an account of "The Wild Parks 

 and Forest Reservations." These number 

 thirty in all without reckoning the Alaskan 

 tundras, which he denominates "Nature's 

 own Reservations." 



When Russia thinks of the gold fields in 

 Alaska and remembers what a short time 

 ago she sold the country to the United 

 States, she must feel somewhat as the 

 woman did who sold her husband's old 

 clothes to a rag man and afterwards dis- 

 covered that there was a ten dollar bill in 

 the pocket. 



The Memphis Commercial-Appeal wear- 

 ily remarks: "Sometimes we wish white 

 wings would occasionally grow weary, that 

 our gal wasn't a high-born lady, that all 

 coons didn't look alike to us and that Mr. 

 Johnson would turn that fellow loose and 

 tell him to go to the devil." Doubtless 

 many, who have grown tired of the "pop- 

 ular songs" wili echo the wish. 



The American Society of Irrigation En- 

 gineers will hold the annual meeting in 

 Denver, Col., Friday and Saturday, March 

 25th and 26th next. 



W. F. Cody, of <; Buffalo Bill" fame is 

 interested in an irrigation system in the 

 Big Horn (Wyo.) basin, with about twenty 

 miles of main canal already completed. 



