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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



A STEAM SKIDDER IN USE BY THE SAWYER & AUSTIN LUMBER CO., PINE BLUFF, ARK. 



state, studying especially the local con- 

 ditions. Thus far, an oak tree, new to 

 Michigan and not previously listed, has 

 been discovered. Two courses of in- 

 struction are being given this year. 

 One is a synoptical review of the science 

 and the other is a course treating of the 

 laws controlling the development of 

 trees and forests and their application 

 in methods of improving, treating, and 

 reproducing forest crops. Other courses 

 that have been planned are : A study of 

 trees and shrubs, their identification, 

 structure, development, relationship, 

 distribution, and uses ; forest mensura- 

 tion. 



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New The Union Rice and Ir- 



Irrigfation rigation Company, with 



Company, an authorized capital of 



$6,000,000, has been in- 

 corporated at Trenton, N. J. The capi- 

 tal stock is divided into shares of $5 

 each, and the list of its incorporators 

 includes seventy-five persons, nearly all 

 of whom reside in New Orleans, Baton 



Rouge, and other Louisiana cities and 

 towns. The objects of the company are 

 numerous and include growing and deal- 

 ing in rice, oats, grain of all kinds, and 

 the manufacturing of the grains into 

 various staples ; also the construction 

 and operation of irrigation plants. 



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Irrigation In connection with the 



Returns. present interests in the 



development of irriga- 

 tion in the West, the following facts 

 noted from a paper recently issued by 

 the United States Geological Survey on 

 the ' ' Development and Application of 

 Water Near San Bernardino, Colton, and 

 Riverside, California," by J. B. L,ip- 

 pincott, resident hydrographer for the 

 State of California, will be of interest 

 as showing what may be done by means 

 of irrigation and also the limits of its 

 possibilities. 



In the eleven years prior to 1898 there 

 were shipped from Riverside nearly 

 7,000,000 boxes of oranges, which at 

 fair figures means an average income of 



