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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



We are presenting in this issue a 

 number of fine half-tones showing 

 Resources the water resources of Hawaii, 



O f which were secured through the 



Hawaii United States Geological Survey of 



the Department of the Interior. 

 These illustrations were first used in Water Supply 

 Paper 318, prepared under the direction of M. G. 

 Leighton by W. F. Martin and C. H. Pierce. 



This volume contains results of measurements 

 of the flow of certain streams and ditches in the 

 territory of Hawaii made during the period 1909- 

 1911, and presents an account of the factors that 

 affect the flow and a summary of the general con- 

 ditions influencing the economic development and 

 use of the surface waters. 



It is extremely important that our readers 

 should act in this matter at once as the strongest 

 money forces in the country are at work to kill or 

 so cripple this beneficent law as to make it of little 

 value. Act now. 



The Forest Bureau of the United 

 National States Department of Agriculture 



Forest has evidently secured the services 



Service of someone of more than ordinary 



News ability, to handle its publicity serv- 



ice, as the matter received from that 

 source has improved wonderfully during the past 

 six months. 



Another feature of this class of news, which is 

 gratifying to those who have perused it regularly 

 for any considerable time, is the fact that we are 

 not continually confronted with the name, or have 

 forced upon us, the personality of the director, as 

 was the case during the days when Gifford Pinchot 

 was the ruling spirit, and as he often expressed it, 

 was "President Roosevelt's errand boy." Much 

 more publicity will be given forestry news under 

 the present system of handling it. 



In a recent communication from a 

 Express correspondent at Washington is se- 



Companies cured the first tangible information 

 and Parcel of a direct effort of the Express 

 Post companies to destroy the Parcel 



Post. Our correspondent states that 

 should the "administrative powers" clause of the 

 Parcel Post be stricken out the vital force of that 

 law will be killed and there would then be no possi- 

 bility of expansion and the work of 40 years will be 

 lost. 



This is a sad outlook and every farmer and 

 ranchman throughout the western country should 

 wake up and send letters and telegrams to the 

 U. S. senators from each State, as well as to the 

 congressman from their district. They should also 

 write to the postmaster general at Washington urg- 

 ing that the Parcel Post law be let alone and that 

 every effort be made to extend it. 



The Department of Agriculture has 

 Working issued a statement outlining its pol- 



to icy in dealing with the milk situa- 



Educate tion in the United States, in which 



Dairymen it is pointed out that it is errone- 



ously supposed that the department 

 has established absolute standards and bacterial 

 counts to which all milk, coming under its jurisdic- 

 tion in interstate commerce, must comply. 



The Department in its milk activities is carry- 

 ing on an extensive campaign of education to help 

 dairymen produce and market good milk. This 

 work is carried on principally by the dairy division 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



This bureau issues many educational bulletins 

 based upon its experiments in the economical pro- 

 duction of clean milk. It supplies farmers with 

 these bulletins and also sends men into the field to 

 show milk producers how to make changes within 

 their means which will raise the quality of their 

 milk and increase their profits. When indications 

 are found that the milk is not properly produced, 

 and is likely to become dangerous, the dairyman is 

 warned to clean up and is shown how to improve 

 his milk. 



This, it may readily be seen, tends to better 

 conditions all around and work of this character 

 should be encouraged by the milk producers 

 throughout the country. Any move that leads to 

 better health conditions should be supported by all. 



An agricultural colony in Palestine 

 American has just applied to the U. S. forest 



Foresters service for help in planting trees to 



Help bind the drifting sands of the Medi- 



Palestine terranean. The colony is near Jaffa, 



or Yafa, the ancient Joppa of the 

 Bible, and there is being developed in connection 

 with it a seaside resort, with hotel, villas, bath 

 houses and gardens. 



The experts of the service point out that the 

 reclamation of sand dunes is not a serious problem 

 in the eastern United States because the prevailing 

 winds are from the land and the sand is blown into 

 the sea. On the west coast the situation is more 

 serious. The most notable example of reclaimed 

 sand areas the*re is furnished by Golden Gate Park, 

 San Francisco, where grasses, acacias, and, later, 



