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interests involved, but now it appears that active work will 

 be started this summer. 



Our correspondent at Wenatchee, Wash., says: Accord- 

 ing to the federal census, Wenatchee, Chelan county, Wash., 

 had a population of 451 in 1900. The present population of 

 the town is about 2,000, and it is still growing rapidly. Its 

 prosperity is a product of irrigation. 



Wenatchee lies at the junction of the Great Northern 

 railway and the Columbia river. Steamers ply between the 

 town and up-river 'points. It is the natural trading center 

 for an immense territory. 



Good yields of grain are produced on the uplands with- 

 out irrigation, but the pride of Wenatchee is its fruit, and 

 especially its apples, and the orchards are irrigated. The 

 fruit is handsome in appearance, firm in texture and has a 

 tantalizingly, pleasing flavor. The yield is large and the 

 growers have the advantage of a great and growing market. 

 One and a half dollars per box is considered a low price. 



Irrigation heretofore has been the result of individual 

 effort and the systems are relatively small. 



Several large irrigation enterprises have been contem- 

 plated and one important system is now in course of con- 

 struction. The farmers in the vicinity are prosperous and 

 enterprising. Nature smiles upon them and affluence claims 

 them as her own. It is small wonder that they insist that 

 theirs is the promised land. 



NALGONDA, NAKRAKAL, INDIA, February 16, 1903. 

 D. H. ANDERSON, ESQ., EDITOR THE IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago : 



Dear Sir I am sending you by M. O. the sum of 6s 3d, 

 being a year's subscription for 1903. 



I had written to my agents at Bombay to discontinue 

 sending me the journal for 10x33, but when I received direct 

 from you a copy, the No. I, Vol. XVIII., of the journal, in 

 its present improved state, I could not resist the tempta- 

 tion of continuing to subscribe. 



I have brought the journal to the notice of our chief en- 

 gineer for irrigation and a friend at Surriapett, and both of 

 them would like to subscribe. Yours faithfully, 



H. DINSHAW. 



SHOULD ALKALI LAND BE IRRIGATED ? 



The above is a subject that has puzzled the best of 

 farmers for many years here at Greeley, Colo., but as years 

 roll on it is generally believed that seepage land, where 

 alkali exists, necessarily has to be irrigated more thoroughly 

 and more often than where it does not exist, because while 

 this land is apparently moist enough to grow a crop, yet you 

 will find the crop will come up and then begin to grow 

 thinner all the time. It is the alkali burning off the young, 

 tender plant, but if thoroughly irrigated before plowing, it 

 will cool off the alkali until the crop gets up, and as. soon 

 as yellowness appears it should again be thoroughly irrigated. 

 Although the ground be apparently wet, the irrigation will 

 again offset the alkali until the crop matures. Two irrigations 

 are generally sufficient to grow a crop here. We find the 

 crops that do the best on alkali land are: First, sugar beets; 

 second, barley; third, oats. Irrigation has no tendency to 

 make the ground permanently wet. 



JOHN G. HALL, 

 Greeley, Colo. 



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