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Arid 

 Agriculture 



ANYONE interested in 

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It is as important to the 

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Reading ARID AGRICULTURE will give you pleas- 

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We have never heard an adverse criticism of this book. 

 It discusses: 



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3. Irrigation Farming 4. Western Crops 

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7. Building a Western Home 



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Coulee City, has completed a well 347 feet deep, 

 at which point an abundant flow of water was 

 encountered. A pumping plant will be installed 

 to raise water to irrigate his land. 



By an agreement recently made between the 

 attorneys for the Klickitat Irrigation and Power 

 Company and the Northwest Electric Company, the 

 water of the Klickitat river is saved for irrigating 

 a large tract of land in Yakima, Benton and Klicki- 

 tat counties, known as Horse Heaven. This tract, 

 which comprises nearly a half million acres of land, 

 is pronounced by experts to be the finest body of 

 semi-arid land in the entire northwest. The Klicki- 

 tat I. & P. Company has spent much time and large 

 sums of money on their plans to bring the water 

 of the Klickitat river from the foothills of Mount 

 Adams to the Horse Heaven country. The prelim- 

 inary work has been completed and it seemed that 

 all was ready to go forward with the undertaking. 

 Recently it developed that the Northwest Electric 

 Company had laid claims to the Klickitat river, pro- 

 posing to generate electricity which was to be used 

 in Portland, Oregon. Since the irrigation company 

 has filed on the waters of both the Klickitat and 



We Duplicate all Infertile Eggs. White and Columbian 

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 Brahma eggs, $3 for 15 ; $5 for 30. The other varieties $2 

 for 16; $5 for 50, $10 for 100. Address 



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Books on Irrigation 

 and Drainage 



The Irrigation Age has established a book department 

 for the benefit of its readers. Any of the following 

 named books on Irrigation and Drainage will be for- 

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Irrigation Institutions, El wood Mead $1.25 



Irrigation Engineering, Herbert M. Wilson 4.00 



The Primer of Irrigation, Anderson 2.00 



Irrigation and Drainage, F. H. King 1.50 



Irrigation for Farm and Garden, Stewart 1.00 



Irrigating the Farm, Wilcox 8.00 



Practical Irrigation, Aug. J. Bowie 3.00 



Practical Design of Irrigation Works, W. G. Bligh 6.00 

 Irrigation (as a branch of engineering), Hanbury 



Brown ' 5.00 



Earth Slopes, Retaining Walls and Dams, Chas. 



Prelini 2.00 



Road Preservation and Dust Prevention, Wm. P. 



Judson 1.50 



Practical Farm Drainage, Chas. G. Elliott 1.50 



Drainage for Profit and Health, Waring 1.00 



Farm Drainage, French 1.00 



Land Drainage, Miles 1.00 



Tile Drainage, Chamberlain 40 



Cement Pipe & Tile, Hanson 1.00 



Arid Agriculture, B. C. Buffum 1.50 



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