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He puts great stress upon summer tillage, but distinguishes 

 it from .summer fallow, in which the soil is permitted to 

 lie idle. He would get a proper physical condition of the 

 soil, not by cultivation during the growing season, but by 

 care the year round. And in this way he has got not fair 

 crops, but big crops in the face of failures all around him. 



The new manual seems to be complete, in simple and 

 direct language, and it is practical. Published by the author, 

 H. W. Campbell, at Lincoln, Neb. $2.50 by mail. It is 

 handsomely illustrated, and is a readable book in every way. 



The United States Geological survey has recently pub- 

 lished a number of volumes which are of interest to the 

 people of the arid and semi-arid regions of the west. Among 

 them are the treatise by Willis T. Lee on the "Water Re- 

 sources of the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico, and Their 

 Development;" and the "Determination of Stream Flow 

 During the Frozen Season," by H. K. Barrows and Robert 

 E. Horton. Other bulletins issued by the same department 

 are "The Prevention of Stream Pollution by Strawboard 

 Waste," by Earle Bernard Phelps ; "Flowing Wells and 

 Municipal Water Supplies in the Southern Portion of the 

 Southern Peninsula of Michigan," by Frank Leverett and 

 others; "A Preliminary Account of Goldfield, Bullfrog and 

 Other Mining Districts in Southern Nevada," by Frederick 

 Leslie Ransome; "The Economic Geology of the Kittanning 

 and Rural Valley Quadrangles, Pennsylvania," by Charles 

 Butts; "The Yampa Coal Field, Routt County, Colorado." 

 by N. M. Fenneman and Hoyt S. Gale; and "The Analysis 

 of Silicate and Carbonate Rocks." by W. F. Hillebrand. 



The annual reports of the Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington, and the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 of the University of Wisconsin have also been received at 

 the office of THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Bulletin 143 of the Maine Experiment Station "The 

 Seeding Apples of Maine" is jiist being sent out. The pur- 

 pose of this bulletin is to call attention to those varieties 

 of Maine origin which are worthy of wider dissemination ; 

 and to record, as accurately as possible, the history of such 

 varieties. 



While Baldwin, Greening and other standard varieties, 

 mostly of New England origin, will doubtless remain for 

 many years the leading market sorts, new and valuable sorts 

 are continually appearing, and these will be most likely to 

 excel near their native home, or in their native state. The 

 wholesale injury to orchards by the cold of the past few 

 years is also an incentive to search out the merits of native 

 hardy varieties. 



Among the most valuable of the thirty-eight native sorts 

 mentioned in the bulletin are Deane, Dudley, King Sweet, 

 Rolfe, Starkey and Stowe. Some of those described in 

 pomological manuals are said to be wholly or practically 

 extinct; though at one time of considerable importance. 



The Colorado Experiment Station at Fort Collins has 

 issued a number of bulletins, among them "Notes on Alfalfa, 

 Sugar Beets and Cantaloupes" compiled by P. K. Blinn ; 

 "Advice to Plains Settlers." by J. E. Payne; "The Spring 

 Grain-Louse," by C. P. Gillette ; "Spraying for Coddling 

 Moth," by C. P Gillette ; and "Fruit Growers' Associations," 

 by W. Paddock. 



The bulletins recently issued by the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington are : "Forest Planting in Illi- 

 nois," by R. S. Kellogg; "Beans," by L. C. Corbett; "The 

 Danger from Tubercle Bacilli in the Environment of Tuber- 

 culous Cattle," by E. C. Schroeder, M. D. V., and W. E. 

 Cotton; "Directions for Making the Camembert Type of 

 Cheese." by Theodore W. Issajeff; "A Comparative Study 

 of Tubercle Bacilli from Varied Sources," by John R. 

 . Mohler, V. M. D., and- Henry J. Washburn, D. V. S. ; and 

 "The Terrapin Scale," by J. G. Sanders. 



The University of Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment 

 Station has published several treatises and bulletins within 

 the past few weeks, among them one on "The Spread of 

 Tuberculosis Through Factory Skim Milk With Sugges- 

 tions as to its Control," by Dr. H. L. Russell, who is to 

 succeed W. A. Henry as dean of the agricultural depart- 

 ment of the university in September ; "Drainage Conditions 

 of Wisconsin," by A. R. Whitson and E. R. Jones ; "Sugar 

 Beet Experiments During 1906," by F. W. Woll and C. W. 

 Stoddart; "Land Drainage," by A. R. Whitson and E. R. 

 Jones; and "Principles and Maintenance of Soil Fertility," 

 by A. R. Whitson and C. W. Stoddart. 



Reclamation Service 



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Corbett Tunnel Completed. 



A telegram received from the engineer in charge states 

 that the work of excavating the Corbett tunnel of the Sho- 

 shone irrigation project, Wyoming, was completed on the 

 afternoon of June 21. This tunnel is three and a half miles 

 long and has a cross section of 10 by 10 feet. The actual 

 work of excavation was commenced January 14, 1906, under con- 

 tract. The failure of the contractors to carry on the work 

 satisfactorily made it necessary for the government to take 

 over the work on August 9, 1906. After some delay in re- 

 organizing and securing labor the work was prosecuted more 

 rapidly, and considering the difficulties involved the progress 

 made is very gratifying. The water impounded behind the 

 Shoshone dam will be conducted down the channel of Sho- 

 shone river for sixteen miles and then diverted through Cor- 

 bett tunnel and the canal system out upon the lands to be 

 irrigated. The tunnel has a capacity of 2,000 acre-feet every 

 twenty-four hours. Two concrete mixing plants have been 

 erected and the excavators have been closely followed by a 

 crew putting in the cement lining. It is expected that the lin- 

 ing will be completed by Sept. 1st. Work on the Garland 

 canal, which takes the water from the tunnel, is also pro- 

 gressing rapidly. 



New Assistant Attorney. 



Mr. Ralph B. Williamson of Oregon has been appointed 

 assistant to the United States attorney for the eastern dis- 

 trict of Washington in cases needing immediate attention in 

 connection with the operation of the Sunnyside canal and 

 Sunnyside irrigation project. Mr. Williamson is authorized 

 to institute injunction proceedings to restrain the unlawful 

 taking of water from the Sunnyside canal or its laterals, 

 when called upon to do so by the engineer in charge of the 

 Sunnyside reclamation project. 



Under previous conditions when difficulty was encoun- 

 tered with individuals breaking the headgates, ditches, or 

 measuring boxes for the purpose of taking water in excess 

 of their allowance during the low water season, no relief 

 could be obtained for several days, as the United States 

 attorney resides a distance of nearly 250 miles from North 

 Yakima. 



The matter of protecting the water supply is of the ut- 

 most importance to the settlers under the Sunnyside irriga- 

 tion project and incidentally to the entire arid region, as the 

 failure by the United States to properly control the irriga- 

 tion system would cause enormous losses to the settlers and 

 render it impossible for the United States to enforce collec- 

 tions under the reclamation act, amounting to over a hun- 

 dred thousand dollars annually. 



An extension of time of three months from April 20, 

 1907, has been granted to Messrs. Mason, Davis & Co., of 

 Portland, Ore., for the completion of their contract for a 

 portion of the main canal, Klamath irrigation project, Ore- 

 gon-California, subject, however, to the provision that they 

 would complete and deliver such portions of the work as may 

 be required for irrigation during 1907 on or before May 10, 

 1907. The extreme weather conditions and bad roads so se- 

 riously interfered with the progress of the work that it was 

 impossible for the contractors to complete the work on time. 



The Secretary of the Interior has executed contract and 

 approved the bond of Bailey & Dupee, of Great Falls, Mont., 

 for the construction of about 24 miles of lateral ditches, in- 

 cluding- 9 miles of sub-laterals, in connection with the Fort 

 Shaw unit of the Sun River irrigation project, Mont. The 

 work involves the excavation of 75,600 cubic yards of mate- 

 rial *nd 16,000 cubic yards of overhaul. The contract amounts 

 to $19,720. 



