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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



.June 



tance offered in passing through the 

 soil, and all roots are cut with out 

 the usual injury done with a heavier 

 tool. The blade for this tool was ham- 

 mered from a hay rake tooth and 

 proved to be just the quality of steel 

 for the purpose. 



Two men are required to do satis- 

 factory pruning, one to guide the tool, 

 and one to pull it through the soil. 

 By cutting to a depth of six inches, 

 it requires considerable power to 

 operate, but it is found that by tie- 

 ing a rope on the frame, that one 

 man can pull the primer with con- 

 siderable rapidity, but it requires con- 

 siderable strength, and the process is 

 by no means child's play, and a man 

 who has rootpruned all day will feel 

 as if he has earned his wages. 



By the use of this tool, two men can 

 prune from 100,000 to 150,000 in 

 eight hours. This is extremely satis- 

 factory speed when it is compared 

 with other processes. 



Immediately after pruning the beds 

 are carefully raked over in order to 

 level up the soil in the beds, which is 

 more or less disturbed at the surface. 

 This operation does not require a 

 great deal of time, and is considered 

 highly beneficial to the young seed- 

 lings. 



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Fig. 3. Raking beds after pruning has been 

 done. 



THE UP-BUILDING OF NEVADA 



Third Anniversary of the Reclamation Act Celebrated 

 by the Formal Opening of the Truckee-Carson Project. 



"" HE third anniversary of the pas- 

 sage of the Reclamation Act was 

 fitly celebrated by formally turning 

 water on 50,000 acres of land in Xe- 

 vada, the first area to be benefitted by 

 the provisions of this act. 



The story of the construction of 

 Truckee-Carson project with 

 its wonderful network of canals unit- 

 ing the four principal drainage be- 

 sins of the state, of the expenditure 

 of $9,000,000 and the ultimate inten- 

 sive cultivation of more than 400,000 



acres of land now barren and deso- 

 late, has been told again and again. 

 Far up in the foothills of the snow- 

 crowned Sierra Nevadas half a score 

 of lakes will be utilized as reservoirs 

 to store the flood and excess waters 

 which flow down the mountain sides, 

 and down in the valleys imposing 

 dams will hold back millions of tons 

 of water, turning rivers back upon 

 themselves till great artificial lakes 

 are formed, or diverting the water 

 into channels more convenient for 





