THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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DESERT-LAND ENTRY FINAL PROOF RECLAMATION 

 DISTRIBUTION OF WATER. FEBRUARY 4, 1910. 



Where the final proof submitted upon a desert-land entry 

 shows that the entryman has cultivated and irrigated at least 

 one-eighth of the land, and has constructed ditches, owns a 

 sufficient water right, has brought water to the land, and is 

 prepared to turn water upon the entire tract when it shall 

 have been cleared and prepared for cultivation, he is not 

 required to show further that water has actually been dis- 

 tributed over all the irrigable land in the entry. 



Directions given for amendment of the circular of Novem- 

 ber 30, 1908, 37 L. D. 312, to accord with the views herein 

 expressed. 



DESERT LAND ENTRY CONTEST CHARGE OF FRAUD 

 ANNUAL EXPENDITURES. WILLIAMS V. KIRK, 

 FEBRUARY 7, 1910. 



The fact that the annual expenditures for the benefit of 

 a desert-land entry are made by another, for the entrymen, 

 is not sufficient ground for contest, if made in good faith to 

 effect reclamation, and not with a view to indirectly obtaining 



6 It is not of itself evidence of fraud, or ground for contest, 

 that a group of desert-land entrymen agree voluntarily to 

 subject their lands to the support of an irrigation system 

 from which water may be taken for their reclamation. 



DESERT LAND ENTRY ASSIGNMENT CONTEST ACT 

 OF MARCH 26, 1908. HARRINGTON V. PATTERSON, 

 FEBRUARY 8, 1910. 



The desert-land right under the acts of March 3, 18(7, and 

 March 3 1891, is exhausted by either making or taking by 



-""^e^ o a ne e wh r ? fa'&SSSS* his right by taking an 

 entry by assignment was nevertheless permitted to make 

 Another entry in his own name, it may be Permitted to stand 

 if within the provisions of the act of March 26, 1908, aui 

 zing second desert entries, notwithstanding a pending contest 

 charging disqualification at the time the entry was made. 



(Continued from page 304.) 



The New York Experiment Station recommends that 

 spaying be commenced when the plants ae six to eight 

 inches high and repeat the treatment at intervals of 10 to 

 14 days in order to keep the plants well covered with Bor- 

 deaux throughout the season. During epidemics of blight, 

 it may be necessary to spray as often as once a week. 

 Usually six applications will be required. The Bordeaux 

 mixture should contain four pounds of copper sulphate to 

 each 50 gallons in the first two sprayings and six pounds 

 to 50 gallons in subsequent sprayings. Whenever -bugs or 

 flea beetles are plentiful, add one -to two pounds of Paris 

 green or two quarts of arsenite of soda stock solution 

 to the quantity of Bordeaux required to spray an acre. 



Thoroughness of application is to be desired at all 

 times, but is especially important when flea beetles arc 

 numerous or the weather favorable to blight. Using the 

 same quantity of Bordeaux, frequent light applications are 

 likely to be more effective than heavier applications made 

 at long intervals, e. g.. when a horse sprayer carrying but 

 one nozzle per row is used, it is better to go over the 

 plants once a week than to make a double spraying once 

 in two weeks. A good plan is to use one nozzle per 

 row in the early sprayings and two nozzles per row in the 

 later ones. 



To get along with three sprayings only, the first one 

 should be postponed until there is danger of injury from 

 bugs or flea beetles and then spray thoroughly with the 

 Bordeaux and poison. The other two sprayings should 

 likewise be thorough and applied at such times as to keep 

 the foliage protected as much as possible during the re- 

 mainder of the season. Very satisfactory results may be 

 obtained from three thorough sprayings. 

 (Coutinued on page 329.) 



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 the Primer of Irrigation, a 260-page finely illustrated 

 work for new beginners in irrigation. 



(Under this caption we will present to our readers, from 

 month to month, or as its importance may warrant it, a digest 

 of the latest developments in connection with the United 

 States Reclamation Service, including "Public Notices" and 

 "Service Orders" of public interest.) 



"SERVICE ORDERS." 

 Water-Right Applications for Lands in Private Ownership. 



Under date of November 20, 1909, the Department 

 ruled that an applicant for water-rights for land in private 

 ownership, having the necessary qualifications, may, after 

 having disposed of a previously acquired water-right, make 

 another application, and as to that, may be considered in 

 the position of an original applicant; and that a land- 

 owner may be the purchaser of the use of water for sep- 

 arate tracts at the same time, providing he can properly 

 qualify, and that the tracts involved do not exceed 160 

 acres of irrigable land in the aggregate. 



Functions of the Chicago Office. 



Under date of January 14, the Department ordered 

 that the functions of the Chicago office be confined: 



(a) To transportation matters in general, as they 

 now constitute the work of the office. 



(b) To the purchasing of such supplies and materials 

 as in the opinion of the supervising and project engineers 

 could be secured through the said office at a saving to 

 the government. In this connection, the facilities of the 

 Chicago office should be utilized whenever possible. 



(c) To the expediting of shipments of supplies and 

 materials and related matters. 



(d) That the settlement work of the Service, in so 

 far as the same is handled at Chicago, should be under 

 the entire supervision of the Washington office. 



Water-Rights for Lands in Joint Ownership. 



On January 12, 1910, the Department ruled that where 

 a tract of land under a reclamation project is owned by 

 two or more persons jointly, unless each is a "resident" 

 or an occupant on the land, as provided in Section 5 of 

 the reclamation act, no right to use water to irrigate the 

 same can be acquired thereunder. . 



Engineering Contracts and Inspection. 



The work heretofore carried on by the Chicago office 

 in connection with issuing specifications and opening pro- 

 posals for contracts and the inspection of material, machin- 

 ery, etc., on engineering contracts will hereafter be per- 

 formed in the office of the Director. 



When specifications for work of this character are 

 forwarded from the field they should be submitted suffi- 

 ciently in advance to permit of review before being issued. 

 When mimeograph copies of such specifications are pre- 

 pared in the field, a sufficient number should be forwarded 

 to provide for sending to bidders and also for use in mak- 

 ing extra copies of contracts for the Director's and field 

 offices where needed. This order does not apply to the 

 purchase and inspection of materials for immediate deliv- 

 ery, which will still be handled by the Chicago office. 



PUBLIC NOTICES. 

 Idaho, Minidoka Project. 



On February 7, 1910, public notice was issued in con- 

 nection with the Minidoka Project, Idaho, in regard to 

 lands above the grade of gravity distribution, for which, 

 under existing notice and orders, the first installment of 

 the charges will become due December 1, 1910. 



Water will not be available in 1910 for the high areas 

 of many of the farm units, and in order to provide for a 

 more equitable apportionment of the charges, it is an- 

 nounced that township plats will be filed in the local land 

 office as soon as practicable, showing separately for each 

 farm unit the acreage irrigable by gravity and the high- 

 land acreage irrigable by pumping or otherwise. 



(Continued on page 330.) 



