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water when they receive it. In this way there would be no inter- 

 ference with vested rights or with State codes of laws, while at the 

 same time, there would be a far better prospect of securing a just and 

 effective division of the supply than through interstate litigation such 

 as is now impending. 



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT 

 STATIONS ON IRRIGATION. 



POPULAR PUBLICATIONS FOR GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION. 



(Requests for these publications should be sent to the Secretary of Agriculture or to a Senator 



or Representative in Congress.) 



Farmers' Bulletin No. 46. — Irrigation in Humid Climates. By F. 

 H. King, Professor of Agricultural Physics, College of Agricul- 

 ture, University of Wisconsin, and Physicist of the Wisconsin 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. Pp. 27, figs. 4. 



Treats of the advantages of an abundant supply of soil moisture, the rainfall 

 of the growing season in the United States, water as a plant food, the advantages 

 and disadvantages of irrigation in humid climates, extent of irrigation in the 

 humid parts of Europe, the rainfall of Europe and the Eastern United States, the 

 character and antiquity of European irrigation, fertilizing value of irrigation waters, 

 lines along which irrigation should first develop, land best suited to irrigation in 

 humid climates, waters best suited to irrigation, amount of water needed for irriga- 

 tion, methods of obtaining water fox irrigation, the construction of reservoirs, and 

 methods of applying water. 



Farmers' Bulletin No. 116. — Irrigation in Fruit Growing. By E. J. 

 Wickson, M. A., Professor of Agricultural Practice, University 

 of California, and Horticulturist of the California Experiment Sta- 

 tion. Pp. 48, figs. 8. 



A statement of the relations of irrigation to fruit production, and of irrigation 

 methods, as they have been demonstrated by Pacific coast experience. 



Farmers' Bulletin No. 138. — Irrigation in Field and Garden. By 

 E. J. Wickson, M. A. Pp. 40, figs. 18. 



This bulletin discusses the irrigation of the field and garden from the stand- 

 point of the individual farmer, and contains instructions on the determination of 

 ditch levels, the measurement of small streams, sources of water supply and their 

 use, including the diversion of water from streams, the development of water in 

 dry creek beds, the development of springs, the collection of water from the sides of 

 canyons and ravines, tunneling for water, flowing wells, pumping for irrigation, and 

 the storage of storm water; the distribution of irrigation water, including the loca- 

 tion of the farm ditch and the turning of water from ditches; methods of applying 

 water, including flooding, the depressed bed, ditch-bank irrigation, furrow irriga- 

 tion, raised-bed irrigation, subirrigation, and underflow, and irrigation by sprink- 

 ling; the choice of an irrigation method; and the time for the application of water. 



