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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



February, 



information for young men who expect 

 to take up forestry as a life work. There 

 are plenty of warnings to expect hard 

 work and only fair pay, and many 

 young men will do well to fully realize 

 this in reading the circular rather than 

 have it thrust home while struggling 

 over the rugged mountain sides of the 

 far West or through the swamps of 

 Arkansas. However, the circular is by 

 no means filled Avith discouragement to 

 beginners. There is a lot of valuable 

 information regarding the training re- 

 quired, the forest schools, and chances 

 for employment, and the young man who 



From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. 



TWO OIvD FRIKNDS OF THE PRESIDENT HAVE 



A SATISFACTORY CALI, AT THE 



WHITE HOUSE. 



has decided that the work will be con- 

 genial will be encouraged by the follow- 

 ing extract taken from the last page of 

 the circular: 



' ' The best management of the na- 

 tional forest reserves will require the 

 services of many trained men. The 

 Bureau of Forestry, in the preparation 

 of working plans for private, state, and 

 federal forest lands, in forest investi- 

 gations, and in tree planting, is at 

 present unable to find a sufficient num- 

 ber of suitably prepared foresters to 

 supply its needs. The lack of foresters 



to care for the forest interests of several 

 states is alread}^ making itself strongly 

 felt. An increasing number of forest- 

 ers will be required by private forest 

 owners, as the great holders of timber 

 lands come to realize more generally 

 that conservative lumbering pays better 

 than the methods now employed. The 

 Forestry Bureau in the Philippines offers 

 what is in some ways an unrivaled op- 

 portunity to trained men." 



San Antonio^ 

 Texas. 



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Attention has been at- 

 tracted by the success 

 attained on the irrigated 

 farm of F. F. Collins, in the outskirts 

 of San Antonio. It has furnished an 

 object lesson to the people of that part 

 of the state, and the experiments of Mr. 

 Collins have put in vogue this intensive 

 system of cultivation in west Texas. 

 Favored b}" rich soil, excellent climate, 

 and abundance of water, conditions have 

 been created which stimulate others to 

 undertake irrigation wherever water can 

 be had. It is claimed that the results 

 have been such as to double the price of 

 every acre of vegetable land within 

 reaching distance of the city. One of 

 the tenants on this farm grew two crops 

 of corn in one season, netting, it is as- 

 serted, 130 bushels to the acre. An- 

 other tenant grew Irish potatoes worth 

 $250 per acre ; sweet potatoes the same 

 season on the same land yielded $275 

 per acre a total of $525 per acre for 

 one year. The spread of irrigation in 

 Texas has infused new life into the 

 state, particularl}^ in the rice belt and 

 in the great truck-farming sections. 



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Lacey Ifriga- Representative John F. 

 tion Bill. Ivacey, of Iowa, chair- 



man of the House Com- 

 mittee on Public Lands, has introduced 

 a bill which was intended to solve the 

 irrigation problem, so far as it confronts 

 the present Congress. 



The House Committee on Public 

 Tands has been investigating this ques- 

 tion for a number of years, and Mr. 

 lyacey's idea is that some experiment 

 should be tried before any general plans 

 of irrigation are undertaken. He has 



