THE DIVERSIFIED FARM. 



In diversified farming- by irrigation lies 1he> salvation of agriculture. 



THE AGE wants to brighten the pages of its Diversified Farm department, and with 

 this object in view it requests its readers everywhere to send in photographs and 

 pictures of fields, orchards and farm homes; prize-taking horses, cattle, sheep or hogs. 

 Also sketches or plans of convenient and commodious barns, hen houses, corn cribs, 

 etc. Sketches of labor-saving devices, suce as ditch cleaners and watering troughs . 

 A good illustration of a windmill irrigation plant is always interesting. Will you help 

 us to improve the appearance of THE AGE ? 



mill, nor is the proprietor precluded from 

 receiving and sawing or otherwise handling 

 the timber for that settler or miner; pro- 

 vided the sum charged therefore is exclu- 

 sive of any charge for the timber itself, 



FOREST RESERVE REGULATIONS. 



J. B, Collins, superintendent of the 

 United States forest reserve in Montana, 

 is in receipt of the following instructions 

 from the commissioner of the general land 

 office : 



"Referring to the provisions of the act of 

 June 4, 1897, for free use of timber, as 

 regulated by the rules governing forest 

 reserve?, you are advised as follows: 



"1. Any person authorized by the said 

 act to procure forest reserve timber for his 

 own individual needs, may- procure it 

 through a saw mill operator or other person 

 acting as his agent direct, but however 

 procured, whether by his own hands or an 

 agent direct, he should first confer or com- 

 municate with you directly or through the 

 nearest forestry officer, designating the lo- 

 cation, amount and value of the timber 

 proposed to be cut, the place where and 

 the purpose for which the said timber will 

 be used; stating what sawmill or other 

 agent, if any, will be employed to do the 

 cutting, removing and sawing; and pledging 

 that no more shall be cut from the reserva. 

 tion than he needs for his own land or claim 

 and that none thall be sold, disposed of or 

 used on any other than his own land or 

 claim; and guaranteeing to remove and 

 safely dispose of all tops, brush snd refuse 

 cutting, beyond danger of fiie therefrom. 



". The bona fide settler and miner, act- 

 ing in his individual capacity, is not pre- 

 cluded from taking his timber to the saw 



and is no more than a reasonable sum to 

 cover time and labor expended, and all 

 legitimate expenses in sawing or handling 

 it. The charge cannot be paid with any 

 part of the timber or with any other tim- 

 ber taken from any public lands. 



"3. The stumpage valuation is the value 

 of the timber in the standing tree; and is 

 determined by the locality and size of the 

 timber, the commercial use for which such 

 timber is sought, the demand therefor, etc. 



"4. The said provision for the free use 

 of timber contemplates individual use only- 

 Therefore mining corporations, lumber com- 

 panies and any organization engaged in ex- 

 tensive business enterprises requiring vast 

 amounts of timber are not entitled to any 

 of the benefits hereof. 



"5. Residents of towns and villages with- 

 in or near a forest reservation, having rail- 

 road facilities and other convenient access 

 to saw mills and lumber yards, where 

 lumber and fuel can be procured by pur- 

 chase, are not entitled to the benefits 

 of the provision of the law for the free use 

 of timber.'' 



A GOOD OFFER. 



A farmer of Durango County, X. M. , an 

 enthusiastic advocate of the btet sugar in- 



