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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



ington, has prepared a draft of an irri- 

 gation code to be considered by these 

 commissions and presented to their legis- 

 latures next winter. It is hoped that 

 the two states will adopt substantially 

 the same code of law upon this subject. 

 The draft by Mr. Bien is prepared along 

 the lines indicated as necessary by mod- 

 ern development of irrigation work. It 

 incorporates the fundamental principles 

 of irrigation law declared in the National 

 Reclamation Act, that beneficial use is 

 the basis, the measure, and the limit of 

 \vater rights. It incorporates also sev- 

 eral provisions that will be of impor- 

 tance in connection with the work of the 

 Reclamation Service in the construction 

 of large irrigation systems. This work 

 will be greatly facilitated by the enact- 

 ment of such provisions. The salient 

 features of this draft will be presented 

 to our readers in the October issue of 

 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



Co-operative Many Eastern farmers 

 Irrigation. would have their eye's 



opened as to the value of 

 the w r ater running through their farms 

 if they could see the irrigation develop- 

 ment in the Milk River Valley and how 

 easy it is to construct small irrigation 

 systems. 



An irrigation canal has just been com- 

 pleted at Hinsdale the Rock Creek 

 Canal which will water sixty i6o-acre 

 farms. Everj^ particle of the work has 

 been done by the owners of these farms. 

 Each man's work and team ha's been 

 credited against the cost of the construc- 

 tion, and the actual cash outlay has 

 been less than $i per acre. The total 

 cost of the building of the dam, the 

 main canal, and the lateral ditches and 

 actually getting the water onto the 

 land is about $5 per acre. This is an 

 extremely favorable condition, and the 

 men who have gone into this under- 

 taking are fortunate. They now have 

 land with a perpetual water right, the 

 crops are assured, Sand the average home- 

 stead will produce $1,500 a year above 

 all expenses Better than that, it will 

 produce, with intelligent handling by 

 some of the owners, $2,000 or $2,500, 



for agriculture in that section of the 

 northwest is just emerging from a com- 

 paratively crude state. It is a region 

 where 35 bushels of wheat, 50 bushels of 

 barley, and 60 bushels of oats to the acre 

 can be produced. It is another case of 

 the development of a mere flag station 

 into a thriving community. 



New The following persons 



Members. have joined the Ameri- 



can Forestry Associa- 

 tion since June 30, 1904 : 



Besley, F. W., Halsey, Neb. 



Browne, Mrs. George, 407 G street, S. , Ta- 

 coina, Wash. 



Bryant, John Duncan, Box 1955, Boston, Mass. 



Costikyan, S. S., 62 Harrison street, Mont- 

 clair, N. J. 



Detwiler, S. B., Bureau of Forestry, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Edwards, Samuel, Hudson, N. Y. 



Grimes, E. P., Jonesburg, Maine. 



Hately, John C., 71 Board of Trade building, 

 Chicago, 111. 



Hurst, Edgar R., Forestry Bureau, Manila, 

 P. I. 



Jay, B. F., Mesa, Colo. 



Mason, Miss Cassity E., "The Castle," Tar- 

 ry town, X. Y. 



Merrill, H. G., Andover. Mass. 



Mixer, Charles A., Ruuiford Falls, Maine. 



Parnay, S Y. , 167 Pearl street, Pasadena, Cal. 



Ryerson, A. N., Noroton Heights, Conn. 



Searle, Avery T. , care of Bassett & Co., Pasa- 

 dena, Cal. 



Sheldon, Mrs. Nicholas, Box iSS, Cohassett, 

 Mass. 



Shipway, John H., Noroton Heights, Conn. 



Spafford, Dr. F. A., Flamlreau, S Dak. 



Stevens, M. T., North Andover, Mass. 



Stuart, R. Y., Carlisle, Penn. 



Wells, George T. (Life member), Drifton, 

 Pa. 



White, T. Brook, Belle Fourche, S. Dak. 



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Course in The turning out of skilled 

 Forestry. foresters is no inconsider- 



able part of the valuable 

 work of the Bureau of Forestrj^. No- 

 profession is so little crowded, and none 

 offers a more inviting field to the con- 

 scientious and zealous student. That 

 forestry, as a science essential to the 

 well-being of the nation, is steadily 

 growing in popular favor is evidenced 

 by the increasing number of schools 

 and professorships of forestry that are 

 established. The latest professorship 



