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latter are enabled to recuperate flesh so as 

 to be in better condition to go through 

 the winter. Another advantage is the 

 saving the cost of branding. " 



Mr. Tansill was in Chicago on business 

 connected with the building of the Pecos 

 Valley railroad, the construction of which 

 will open a direct route from Pecos Valley, 

 which Mr. Tansil claims is the finest 

 stock-breeding section in the United 

 States, to Chicago and the east. 



THE DESPISED SALT GRASS. 



A sheep raiser, who is located near 

 Grand Falls, Texas, speaks very favorably 

 of the despised salt grass as food for sheep. 

 The gentleman, Mr. W. N. Fowler by 

 name, has about 20,000 head of sheep and 

 during the past summer he did not lose a 

 single sheep on account of short pasturage, 

 while sheep-men living some fifty miles 

 away, where the salt grass was not abund- 

 ant, lost half their flocks. 



The salt grass is about the first green 

 thing to appear in the spring and grows 

 very luxuriantly without the aid of rain- 

 fall or irrigation, so that even in a pro- 

 longed drouth those who live in the salt 

 grass region are sure of having pasture 

 for their sheep. 



Salt grass is only one of many grasses 

 that are of inestimable value to cattle and 

 sheep raisers, for there is no other country 

 that has so large a number of useful 

 grasses and native forage plants as our 

 own. According to the "Year-Book of 

 the Department of Agriculture", there are 

 60 native species of clover, 70 blue 

 grasses, 25 gramas and curly mesquite 

 grasses, valuable for sheep and cattle pas- 

 turage, 90 lupines, 20 wild beans, 40 

 vetches, 20 kinds of wild rye, 30 kinks of 

 brome grasses, and meadow, pasture, 

 woodland and swamp grasses without 

 number. 



in the corn and sorghum planted on the 

 Killito by J. D. Andrew. Before the late 

 rains came it was about ten inches high 

 and was kept alive by cultivation, but is 

 now higher than a man's head. When the 

 rains came it took a new start in life and 

 grew from six to ten inches in each 

 twenty-four hours. The fear now is that 

 it will run largely to stalk. The sorghum 

 grew almost as rapidly as the corn, and is 

 now in blossom, with the promise of a 

 large and profitable crop. Of the two he 

 has about forty-five acres wholly depend- 

 ent on the summer rains for making a 

 crop. Arizona Daily Gazette. 



IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS. 



P. N. Myers, general manager of the 

 Hemet, (Cal. ) water system, reports that 

 the following improvements are to be 

 made in the Hemet system before the 

 next irrigation system opens; The flume 

 and ditch will be covered to keep out all 

 impurities, for the purpose of improving 

 the general quantity of the water, also an 

 independent pipe line, will be run from 

 the crosscut southeast of Florida to the 

 southwest side of Park Hill, Avhere a re- 

 ceiving reservoir will be built and large 

 covered filters put in at an elevation of 

 150 feet above Hemet, said filter to have a 

 capacity of 200,000 gallons per day. This 

 filtered water will be run through an in- 

 dependent pipe line to the patrons of the 

 Lake Hemet Water company for domestic 

 purposes. The company will also replace 

 their twenty-seven sections of flume, the 

 flume to be 36x54 and have a capacity of 

 4000 miners' inches. The diversion dam 

 will also be repaired and improved. The 

 above repairs will take about fifty car- 

 loads of lumber, and will cost $20,000. 

 When completed, the Lake Hernet Water 

 company will have the most perfect water 

 system in California. 



LIKE THE FAMOUS BEANSTALK. 



An instance of the rapid growth of veg- 

 etation in southern Arizona is to be found 



There is more exertion used in running 

 200 yards than in riding a bicycle four 

 miles. 



