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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



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IRRIGATION PLANT OF W. N. KRATICR ON BANKS OF THE NORTH PLATTE RIVER, EIGHT 



MILES NORTHWEST OF GUERNSEY, WYOMING. CONSISTS OF TWO CENTRIFUGAL 



PUMPS WITH A CAPACITY OF 3,000 GALLONS A MINUTE, LIFT OF 20 FEET. 



ONE HUNDRED ACRES UNDER DITCH, AND THE OWNERS 



REGARD THE EXPERIMENT A SUCCESS. 



pull. He will find out eventually that 

 he has made one of the greatest mistakes 

 of his public career. ' ' 



A number of other papers comment 

 in the same vein, and general regret is 

 expressed at the defeat of a bill which 

 was considered ' ' a strictly non-political 

 one, and which was in the interest of 

 the public." 



Bureau of 

 Forestry 

 Field Work. 



On July ist the Bureau 

 of Forestry began its 

 field season of 1902, and 

 its w^ork is now being 

 carried on in twenty states. The Bu- 

 reau has appointed 90 new student 

 assistants for this season, the entire field 

 force numbering 165 men. The work 

 includes, among other things, the gath- 

 ering of the necessary data for several 

 working plans, a study of a number of 

 well-known commercial trees, the ex- 

 amination of farm woodlots, and a study 



of the treeless areas with a view of de- 

 vising plans for forest extension. 



The Bureau of Forestry begins the 

 new fiscal year of 1902- 1903 with an 

 appropriation of $291,860 ; the amount 

 for the year just ended was $185,440. 

 This increased appropriation shows how 

 this work commends itself to Congress, 

 and it makes possible a much wider 

 range of work. The present season's 

 work is by far the most varied and in- 

 teresting yet undertaken by the Bu- 

 reau of Forestry, and is being car- 

 ried on in Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- 

 mont, Massachusetts, New York, New 

 Jersey , Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, 

 West Virginia, North Carolina, Michi- 

 gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, 

 South Dakota, Montana, Arizona, and 

 California. Later in the season it will 

 be extended to still other states and 

 territories. 



The field work necessary for a work- 

 ing plan for the tract of the Great 



