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ORCHARD CHARTS. 



After an orchard is planted, much trouble is 

 experienced in locating the kind of trees planted. 

 One cannot depend long upon his memory or 

 tags. The tags will perish and be torn off, and 

 one cannot be sure after they fruit; often a man 

 will buy an old orchard and know very little of 

 the varieties it contains. 



To obviate this trouble, the accompanying il- 

 lustration shows a chart and record, whereby one 

 can locate a tree at any crossing, or number ot 

 them. 



The chart is made by drawing lines east and 

 west and north and south, according to the dis- 

 tance the trees are planted; in this case, it is 20 

 feet. The rows are then numbered every five 

 rows in both directions, and then the record is 

 numbered and is very much like a map of street 

 intersections. 



This should be framed with glass over it and 

 hung where it can be referred to, or it can be 

 filed away for reference. 



Numbers corresponding to the plat should be 

 painted and fastened to a stake or fence, at the 

 end of the corresponding row, and no trouble 

 will be experienced in finding any one or number 

 of trees within 50 years. 



"N" denotes the north and south lines. "E" 

 the east and west lines in the diagram. To locate 

 any tree or number of trees, first ascertain the 

 north and south row, and then where the east 

 and west crosses it. For a group we will il- 

 lustrate: Large Montmorency 1 No. 1 E east 

 to 13 as a base then N to 87 E. 



The year date of planting should be added to 

 all records. 



THE HUNTLEY PROJECT IN SOUTHERN 

 MONTANA. 



One of the most modest, withal one of the 

 most interesting of the government irrigation pro- 

 jects is the Huntley, in- southern Montana. It 

 represents no spectacular engineering features, yet 

 from a sociological standpoint it is one of the 

 most interesting works so far undertaken. The 

 project embraces about 35,000 acres of land, which 

 was divided by the engineers in farms of ap- 

 proximately 40 acres each. This was a daring 

 thing to do in a country where men believed 

 themselves entitled to as many hundred or thou- 

 sand acres as they could fence in. The engineers 

 argued that in a region so favorably situated in 

 regard to soil, climate and crops, 40 acres were 

 enough, and the crop report for 1911 has just 

 been received by the Reclamation Service in 

 Washington, and it indicates that their contention 

 was well founded. 



During 1911, 12,000 acres were actually ir- 

 rigated, but crop returns have only been received 

 from 11,100 acres. The estimated value of crops 

 on the area reported was $316,759, or nearly $29 

 per acre. Considering that about 30 per cent of 

 this area was new land cropped for the first time, 

 and that the spring of 1911 was unusually dry 

 and unfavorable for the germination of seed, this 

 is a pretty good showing for amateur irrigatprs. 

 With only one-third of the acreage of the project 

 in crop, the value of the yield was approximately 

 37 per cent of the cost of building the irriga- 

 tion system. The settlers have also acquired live 

 stock of an estimated value of $224,369, and in 

 addition sold stock during the year, including 

 poultry and poultry and dairy products, amount- 

 ing to $32,509.75. Including these sales, returns 

 during 1911 amounted to an average of $31.46 per 

 acre. A portion of these to\ nsites was offered 

 for sale in August, 1907, and on April 18, 1912, 

 there will be an auction sale of additional lots 

 in four of these town c . This sale offers splendid 

 opportunities for business and professional men 

 and artisans to estabish themseves in new towns 

 in the midst of a growing community. 



