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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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able that electric power will come into 

 use on the farms instead of gasoline 

 and steam engines. 



On the whole the lower valley is a 

 the ground in time for the possible 

 change. 



Private capital has done much to 



develop irrigation in this valley. But 

 the Reclamation Service will be able 

 good place to live. The farming dis- 

 trict has free rural delivery, telephone 

 system, railway stations near at hand 

 in short, all the conveniences that 

 older communities claim. 



Head of the Canal of the Felix Irrigation Company, in the Pecos River Valley, near Roswell 



FORESTRY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



Suggestion As to a Way to Interest Children 

 in the Practical Side of Forest Growth 



BY 

 A. NEILSON 



COME instruction in forestry, I be- 

 lieve, would be of great benefit to 

 the children in our public schools, 

 without working any great hardship 

 on the teachers. I am painfully aware 

 that a lot of hands will be raised in 

 holy horror at the idea of introducing 

 a new study, and I would not wonder 

 at it, for in the present day, real work- 



ers are, as a rule, overworked. But I 

 think it very important to teach chil- 

 dren something about nature in a prac- 

 tical way and, in my opinion, the 

 best thing to do is to teach them some- 

 thing about practical forestry. 



The average child in the country 

 grows up with the impression that 

 country and nature simply mean dust, 



