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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



It is reasonable to suppose that more than the 

 total sum of $424,000,000 which has been expended 

 and that sum may at this time have reached a total 

 of $500,000,000 has been returned to the farmers in 

 a single year through money received from crops. If 

 alfalfa on 2,000,000 acres will produce a total sum of 

 $60,000.000 in one year, it is fair to presume that the 

 other 12,000.000 irrigated acres will produce crops 

 during the same period of sufficient value to equal the 

 whole expenditure on federal and private projects for 

 the entire ten years. If this is true, it should prove 

 good material for consideration by those who decry 

 the possible results of money making on irrigated 

 areas. We would advise those who are objecting to 

 irrigation expenditures to secure the census report 

 on irrigation and go over it carefully. 



other than this imposed on the interstate movement of 

 domestic nursery stock. 



These changes appears to us to be a wise move 

 and should be productive of good results in introduc- 

 ing foreign grown nursery stock to this country. 



The Federal Horticultural Board has 

 Amend recommended some changes in the 



Plant rules and regulations for carrying out 



Quarantine the Plant Quarantine Act. The 

 Act. changes are as follows : 



Immediately upon the entry and 



before removal from the port of entry, the nursery 

 stock for each separate shipment or consignment 

 thereof, the committee shall notify the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, through the collector of customs where 

 entry is made on forms provided for that purpose, 

 stating the number of permit, the date of entry, the 

 general nature and quantity of the nursery stock, the 

 country or locality where grown, and the name and 

 address of the consignee to whom it is purposed to 

 forward the nursery stock, together with the probable 

 date of delivery for transportation. At the same time, 

 a copy of the notice to the Secretary of Agriculture 

 shall be sent by the permittee to the duly authorized 

 inspector or other officer of the state, territory, or 

 district to which the nursery stock is to be shipped. 

 Lists of such inspectors or officers may be obtained 

 on application to the collector of customs, or the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board, Washington, D. C. Permits 

 may be cancelled and further permits refused if a 

 permittee fails to give either of said notices, or gives 

 a false notice, or knowingly mislabels any nursery 

 stock with intent to evade any provision of the Plant 

 Quarantine Act or regulation thereunder. Should a 

 consignee named in such a notice ship or deliver for 

 shipment to any other state, territory or district such 

 nursery stock before it has been inspected by a duly 

 authorized state, territory or district inspector or offi- 

 cer, he shall prior to such shipment give notice to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture and to the duly authorized 

 inspector or other officer of the state, territory or dis- 

 trict to which the nursery stock is to be re-shipped. 

 Imported nursery stock which has been once inspected 

 will be allowed to move interstate without restrictions 



James J. 

 Hill ' 

 Gives 

 Advice. 



Hasten the completion of the reclama- 

 tion projects already under way., and 

 be sure that you have competent men 

 in the field, is the advice given by 

 James J. Hill, president of the Great 

 Northern Railway, to Secretary Lane 

 at a hearing on reclamation recently held in Wash- 

 ington. Mr. Hill reiterated former statements to the 

 effect that it costs the reclamation service more than 

 twice what it costs other service and private corpora- 

 tions to reclaim desert areas. This statement was 

 objected to by Director Xewell of the Reclamation 

 Service and Senator Walsh, of Montana, who ques- 

 tioned the knowledge of Mr. Hill on Reclamation 

 Service work. Mr. Hill stated that he had never built 

 a mile of irrigation canal in his life, but he knew that 

 when private enterprises in Canada could sell land and 

 water for $30.00 an acre, while the same quality of 

 land and quantity of water shows a cost to the Recla- 

 mation Service of $45.00 an acre, there must be some- 

 thing wrong. Director Newell in reply stated that the 

 government work was more permanent than that built 

 by the average private corporation, and that serious 

 mistakes were frequently made by private corporations 

 who were prone to take in too large an acreage for 

 the water capacity; he stated further that the govern- 

 ment could work only eight hours a day, and that 

 ten hours a day was the ruling time on private enter- 

 prises. Mr. Hill insisted that the last statement was- 

 another reason why the government should go out of 

 the business and leave it all to private enterprises. 



Mr. Hill's attitude is really surprising, in view 

 of the fact that he was one of the early supporters of 

 the movement which resulted in the Reclamation Law. 

 If the writer's memory serves him right, Mr. E. P. 

 Ripley, president of the Santa Fe Railway, was the 

 first man to take an active part in organizing the Na- 

 tional Irrigation Congress, and through his efforts 

 assistance was secured from the leading men of the 

 west and southwest, and later on George H. Maxwell 

 came into the field as assistant lecturer to Judge Em- 

 ery, who was then alive and active in the work. Max- 

 well subsequently took Judge Emery's place, and in- 

 duced the railway companies to organize and furnish 

 a fund for this propaganda of national reclamation. 

 That part of Mr. Maxwell's work was commendable 

 and will place him on the role of leaders in that move- 

 ment. In this connection, it may not be out of place 

 to state that the reclamation reports constantly refer 

 to the Reclamation Law as the "Newlands Act." when 



