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son. If the fair weather continues they will finish 

 from thirty to forty per cent, and will complete the 

 whole project much ahead of the scheduled time. They 

 expect to have the Xuss and Griffith laterals ready 

 for use for the irrigation season of 1913, and while 

 they have much work done on the North and South 

 Poe Valley canals they will not be able to turn them 

 over in time for 1913 water, unless it be late in the 

 season. 



The United States Department of Agriculture 

 has informed the Oregon State Agricultural college 

 that the government will co-operate with the state of 

 Oregon in establishing and maintaining an irrigation 

 experiment and demonstration farm in Klamath 

 county. This forty-acre tract will probably be located 

 on the government land near Klamath Falls. 



The contract which the state of Idaho has with 

 the North Side Twin Falls Land and Water Com- 

 pany will not be cancelled as requested by the settlers 

 on the north side tract, who alleged that the company 

 did not comply with the terms of its contract with the 

 state, but instead the state land board has ordered the 

 company to impound for delivery 170,000 acre feet of 

 water for use of the settlers in irrigating their land. 



Among the late permits granted for the use of 

 water by the state engineer's department of South Da- 

 kota, are the Stanley County Abstract & Loan Com- 

 pany of Fort Pierre, to appropriate water from White 

 river, for the irrigation of 328 acres of land in the 

 southwestern part of Stanley county. To Wm. Havi- 

 land of Wasta, to take water from White river to 

 irrigate 182 acres of land, and to Wm. Richards of 

 Vivian, to take water to irrigate 124 acres. 



The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the 

 Director of the Reclamation Seivice to execute con- 

 tract with the Wheeling Mold and Foundry Co., 

 of Wheeling, W. Va., for furnishing five high pres- 

 sure gates for the Arrowrock dam, Boise irrigation 

 project, Idaho. The price of these gates, including 

 freight, is $29,059.20. 



FARMERS OF FORTY CENTURIES. 



"Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent 

 Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan" by F. H. 

 King, professor of agricultural physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, 1888-1901, and chief of the 

 Division of Soil Management, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, 1901-1904, is an authoritative and well 

 gotten up publication covering the subject of agri- 

 culture in those countries. It is the only work of the 

 kind that has ever come to our attention. It contains 

 valuable information, and is written in such form as 

 to make it a valuable text-book, and it is both enter- 

 taining and interesting. 



This book is a fitting climax to the life of F. H. 

 King of the University of Wisconsin. In it he placed 

 the best efforts of his life, and the work should be 

 in all libraries where agriculture is studied. 



This work contains 441 pages with 248 illustra- 

 tions, largely from photographs by the author. The 

 book is published by Mrs. F. H. King, Madison, Wis- 

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