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INDEX 



Kneale, 405. 

 Knight, 390. 

 Kraus, 230, 329. 



Lake waters, salinity of, 86. 

 Lateral organization, 367. 

 Lath-boxes, 212. 

 Laying-out farm, 420. 

 Lay-off, 440. 



in furrow irrigation, 209. 

 Lawes, 133. 



Leaching upward, 81, 385. 

 Leather, 39, 133, 134, 136, 156. 

 Leaves, proportion of, 163. 

 Le Clerc, 230. 



Legumes, not alkali-resistant, 398. 

 Lemon, 314. 



Lento-capillary point, 16. 

 Lettuce under irrigation, 308. 

 Leveling land, 423. 

 Lewis, 230, 326, 329. 

 Loganberries, 326. 

 Lombardy, 450. 



sugar in, 225. 

 Longmont, 461. 

 Longyear, 329. 



Loughridge, 30, 39, 215, 392, 393, 404. 

 Lucern. See Alfalfa. 

 Lyman, 352, 369. 

 Lyon, 13, 146. 

 Lysimeter, 77. 



Macdonald, 239. 



Manager for water-distribution, 366. 



Manuring effect on water-use, 121. 



Manufactured crops, importance of, 266. 



Marking, in furrow irrigation, 208. 



Mawson, 339. 



Maxwell, 411 418. 



Mayer, 156, 145, 167. 



McClatchie, 179, 188, 239, 404. 



McDowell, 188. 



McLaughlin, 20, 39, 63, 126, 248, 264, 



284, 313. 

 McKee, 285. 

 Mead, 7, 215, 239, 343, 346, 369, 404, 



418, 464, 466, 468, 484. 

 Meadow hay, early yield, 407 

 Meadows under irrigation, 281 

 Means, 404. 

 Measurement of water. See also Weir. 



Instruments for, 441. 



need of, 347. 



classes of measurements, 349. 



who shall measure, 349. 

 Meeker, 460. 

 Meheinet Ali-Pasha, 452. 



Menes, 445. 



Merrill, 188, 215, 265, 239, 285, 313, 



370, 469. 

 Meteorology, effect on evaporation, 44, 



47. 

 Method of irrigation, 189. 



sub-surface irrigation, 189. 



permanent ditches, 196. 



open and closed fields, 196. 



field-ditch or lateral method, 198. 



check method, 202. 



border method, 202. 



furrow method, 207. 



basin method, 207. 



summary of methods, 214. 



of wheat, 243. 



of alfalfa, 269. 



of sugar beets, 289. 



of orchard, 315. 



in humid climates, 412. 

 Mexico, 447. 

 Milan, 408, 415. 

 Mill waste, 417. 

 Mills, 468. 



Mineral oil, as ditch-lining, 377. 

 Miner's inch, 332. 

 Mitchell, 106. 

 Modules, 350. 



Moisture in soil. See Soil Moisture. 

 Montgomery, 156. 

 Moors, 449. 

 Morgan, 146, 157. 

 Morgan, E. R., 264, 278, 284, 313. 

 Mormon pioneers, 455, 201. 

 Mulching. See Cultivation. 



to check evaporation, 49. 



self-mulching soils, 52. 



Nebraska Station, 37. 



Net duty of water, 335. 



Newell, 7, 346, 369, 462, 464, 484. 



New England, 406. 



New Jersey, 410. 



New Jersey Station, 469. 



New Mexico, alkali from, 391. 



Night irrigation, 187. 



Nile, 84, 85, 97, 104, 339, 445. 



Nitrogen. See Protein. 



North America, duty of water in, 343. 



North Platte River, 96. 



Nowell, 264, 313. 



Nursery stock, under irrigation, 326. 



Nuts, 314. 



Oats, ash in leaves, 219. 

 ash in stalks, 219. 

 protein in, 221. 



