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THE IRRIGA T10N A GE. 



young, robust and ambitious of those sec- 

 tions have gone out and settled in the 

 West, bought land and planted vineyards 

 and orchards, cotton and tobacco, wheat 

 and corn, herded cattle, sheep and horses ; 

 they have plowed and sowed and reaped 

 and gathered into the garner of the hus- 

 bandmen ; they have been frugal and 

 prospered, and as a result towns and cities 

 have sprung up ; in answer to the demands 

 created all sorts of industries have been 

 established and new avenues opened for 

 the safe and lucrative investment of labor 

 and capital. That is the class of popula- 



A DAIRY SCHOOL. 



The Kansas State Agricultural College 

 at Manhattan, Kan., will begin its second 

 annual Dairy school Jan. 3, 1898, and 

 continue it until March 25, 1899. Kan- 

 sas is a state that has first class conditions 

 for profitable dairying and it is estimated 

 that 30,000 farmers within the state send 

 milk to creameries and cheese factories. 

 It is, therefore, quite as important that in- 

 struction should be given in dairying as 

 in other branches of farm work and realiz- 

 ing this the Agricultural Colllege has 

 opened a way by which the farmer may 



tion Texas wants; there is room enough 

 and to spare for those who are willing to 

 toil to accomplish something every year 

 as they go along, create wealth and all its 

 desirable accomplishments and so system- 

 atically benefit themselves, the state and 

 the nation. 



In my next letter I will treat of local 

 conditions as I find in those portions of 

 the atate that I may visit. 



WALLACE HARRINGTON. 



In the Cuban election, if an American 

 meal ticket was put up it w&uld sweep the 

 island. Journal, Minneapolis. 



become posted on dairy subjects at very 

 little expense. 



Tuition is free, the only expense being 

 for books, blank books, and suits. The 

 total expense of the term, exclusive of 

 railway fare, may be made as low as $40 

 for the term, board and room being furn- 

 ished at $2.50 a week and upwards. Any 

 person over 18 years of age, of good char- 

 acter and of sufficient intelligence and ed- 

 cation to understand the lectures given may 

 be admitted without examination. The 

 school has a model private dairy with the 

 best forms of apparatus for handling milk 

 and making butter and a herd of dairy cows 



