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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Arid 

 Agriculture 



ANYONE interested in 

 farming or in the West 

 should have the book entitled 

 ARID AGRICULTURE. 



It is as important to the Prof. B. c. Buffum 

 western farmer as a horse or a plow and costs less. 



With all your getting, get understanding of how to do 

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 It discusses: 



1. The Arid Region 2. Dry Farming 



3. Irrigation Fanning 4. Western Crops 



5. Crop Destroyers 6. Live Stock 



7. Building a Western Home 



Chapter XXVI tells how to select a western farm. 

 Thirty Chapters. Many Illustrations. Bound in Cloth and Gold. 



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The amount of water needed in irrigation on 

 the Strawberry Valley project has been tested care- 

 fully by measurements made during 1912 on a large 

 number of farms irrigated from Spanish Fork River, 

 south of Provo. The results which have been re- 

 ceived and studied'by the reclamation service show 

 that the amount used has varied from less than an 

 acre-foot per acre up to between two and three 

 acre-feet, there being the unregulated demands of 

 the farmers and in accordance with their habitual 

 practice. It is stated that good yields of alfalfa 

 have been produced with 1.6 acre-feet, and good 

 crops of wheat and oats with from 1.24 to 1.6 acre- 

 feet. The best crops of barley were raised with less 

 than 1.7 acre-feet. Sugar beets yielding from 24 to 

 27 tons per acre were produced with 1.66 to 1.92 

 acre-feet. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Secretary of the Interior has issued a pub- 

 lic notice announcing that the settlers under the 

 Tieton unit of the Yakima irrigation project in 

 Washington, who have cultivated and reclaimed 

 one-half or more of their irrigable land, may have 

 the benefit of a graduated scale of water right pay- 

 ment. New entrymen can secure a certain part of 

 these benefits if at the time the second instalment 

 becomes due such entryman shall have reclaimed 

 and cultivated not less than. 25 per cent of the 

 irrigable area of his entry, and if when the third 



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Only Half an Hour From Town 



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