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use of rubber boots is unnecessary. On concrete floors 

 not a particle of grain need be wasted. The way to the 

 water trough is always dry, smooth and passable. Con- 

 crete floors promote and protect the health of farm ani- 

 mals and increase the profits of farming, stock raising and 

 dairying. 



Construction. 



The construction of concrete barnyards is exactly like 

 that of feeding floors, except that the work is on a larger 



central western syndicate, and it is given out that actual 

 construction will begin in 00 days, or as soon as title to some 

 of the land included in the project is cleared. Mr. Ham 

 said : 



"We have been working on the plan for two years. We 

 plan the construction of a dam at the south end of Moses 

 lake 20 feet high and 300 feet long. This dam will save 100.- 

 000 acre-feet of water. We are planning to construct 13 

 miles of flume. This work will take a year. 



"We are not at liberty at this time to disclose our prin- 

 cipals, but they are connected with 

 the strongest financial institutions in 

 the middle west, and are fully able 

 to carry out every enterprise they 

 undertake." 



Cut Showing Perspective View of Floor. 



scale. Often the entire lot is not paved in one season, 

 but from year to year as the farmer has time. In ex- 

 cavating for the drainage foundation, be careful to re- 

 move all manure and straw which may be tramped into 

 the ground and which may be so solid as to resemble 

 earth. In time any kind of manure decays, shrinks, causes 

 the floor to settle and forms water and ice pockets on its 

 surface. Dig the trench for the foundation apron as for 

 feeding floors there is no material so rat-proof as con- 

 crete. 



With the drainage foundation ready, set the forms 

 in the same manner as for a sidewalk. Even if the whole 

 lot is not to be paved at one time, plan the grading for 

 the entire barnyard so that the completed pavement may 

 have perfect surface drainage. Built and cure the pave- 



THE METHOW VALLEY 

 PROJECT. 



Sixty thousand acres of fruit 

 lands along the Columbia and 

 Okanogan rivers, in north" central 

 Washington, will be put under the 

 ditch by the Methow Valley Irriga- 

 tion Company, incorporated under 

 the laws of Washington with a 

 capital of $1,500,000. Water for this 



purpose will be taken from the Methow river. Water 

 rights and options on thousands of acres have already 

 been obtained. Work will begin in April. 



John M. Ellingsworth, president of the new company, 

 was at one time an attorney for the Union Pacific Railway 

 Company, and went to the Northwest from Omaha. Charles 

 T. Borg is secretary of the company, and Pateros, Wash., is 

 the principal place of business. It is announced by Mr. 

 Ellingsworth that water will be delivered on the land early 

 in 1912. 



A DAM ON THE CARSON RIVER. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the Recla- 

 mation Service to construct by force account a large dam 

 on the Carson river, for storage purposes in 

 connection with the Truckee-Carson irrigation 

 project, Xevada. The Service has accordingly 

 commenced the assembling of the necessary 

 plant and equipment for the prosecution of 

 the work. In this connection contract has 

 been awarded the Marion Steam Shovel Com- 

 pany of San Francisco, California, for furnish- 

 ing two 1^4-yard steam shovels at a total price 

 of $13,400. 



Upon the completion of this dam a large 

 acreage will be thrown open to homestead en- 

 try under the terms of the Reclamation Act. 



Cut Showing Dairy Cows on Cement Floor. 



ment and make provision for saving the manure the same 

 as for concrete fejeding floors. Do not be too particular 

 about giving the surface a smooth finish a rougher finish 

 affords the animals a better footing. The cost per square 

 foot is no more than that of feeding floors the invest- 

 ment yields even a greater profit. 



RECLAMATION PROJECT IN THE STATE OF 

 WASHINGTON. 



MOSES LAKE Project 



David T. Ham, president of the firm of Ham, Yearsley 

 & Ryrie, of Spokane, announces that $2,000,000 will be ex- 

 pended this year in reclaiming 50,000 acres of land in Grant 

 County, Wash., by using the water of Moses lake. The firm 

 is to carry on the preliminary work in the interests of a 



IRRIGATION LANDS OPEN TO HOME- 

 STEAD ENTRY. 



The Secretary of the Interior has issued 

 a public notice to the effect that the lands in 

 the Fourth Unit of the Umatilla irrigation 

 project, Oregon, will be open to homestead 

 entry on and after March 22, 1911, and that 

 water will be furnished to these lands during 

 the coming season. Water right applications 

 may also be made for lands within this unit 

 heretofore entered and for lands in private ownership. 



The lands in the Fourth Unit lie in Townships 4 and 5 

 North. Range 28 East, and Township 5 North, Range 29 

 East, Williamette Meridian. The unit contains 6,053 acres 

 of irrigable land of which 2,763 acres are public land. The 

 building charge. $60 per acre, is payable in not more than 

 ten annual installments, each payment not less than $6 per 

 acre or some multiple thereof, except that in the case of 

 lands hereafter entered the first installment of the building 

 charge shall be $12 per acre, and subsequent installments 

 $fi per acre. All entries must be accompanied by applica- 

 tion for water right and by the first installment of the 

 building charge, and one year's operation and maintenance 

 charge, a total of $13.30 per acre of irrigable land, except 

 where payments have been duly made by the prior applica- 

 tion and credits duly assigned in writing. 



