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Playas valley. The company lias been. 1 

 organized by California capitalists, 

 headed by Milton McWhorter and J. 

 F. Winner, of Oakland, Cal. 



O. \V. Johnson is planning to irri- 

 gate 1,000 acres near Maxwell, N. -M.. 

 by pumping water from the Red river. 



State Engineer French of New 

 Mexico is preparing to sink three test, 

 wells for irrigation in Torrance coun- 

 ty. He expects to develop a large un- 

 derground supply of water. 



E. E. Hartshorne, Carlsbad, N. M.. 

 is installing an irrigation pumping 

 plant on the Pecos river. 



J. A. Gore and L. G. Lilly, Alamo- 

 gordo, X. M., are installing an irriga- 

 tion pumping plant. 



Texas 



Farmers around Donna, Texas, are 

 planning a $900,000 bond issue for the 

 purchase of the La Donna Canal 

 Company's holdings and to put the 

 whole system in first-class condition. 

 C. E. Clark, engineer for the irriga- 

 tion district, places the cost at 

 000. 



Montana 



A $140.000 irrigation project around 

 Brady, Teton county, Mont., has been 

 launched. 



The Billings Land & Irrigation 

 Company of Montana has sold 16,000 

 r.cres in the Billings bench to the 

 Montana Ranches Company. 



Foreign 



President Benavides of Peru has is- 

 sued a supreme decree accepting, with 

 slight modifications, the contract pro- 

 posed by Breitung & Company, Lim- 



Quick Irrigating 



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 ditches with the MARTIN Ditcher and 



CnidiT. The time and labor cost will be 

 less and the ditch a better job. 



No Wheels or Levers 



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terracing, land-leveline, back-fillinsor 

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ited, of New York, for the irrigation 

 and colonization of Peruvian coast 

 lands. The government will issue 

 bonds to the amount of 2,000,000 

 sterling ($10,000,000), which Edward 

 \. lireitung will negotiate. The bond 

 issue matures in thirty years and the 

 lands are to be sold on twenty-year 

 payments. Approximately 100,000 

 acres will be added to the cultivated 

 area of the country. The company 

 has until July 15 to examine and ap- 

 prove the contract and transfer the 



twenty-thousand-pound guarantee to 

 Lima. 



A large ranch near Medicine Hat, 

 Alberta, will be brought under irriga- 

 tion if drillers now at work are suc- 

 cessful in striking natural gas, which 

 is altogether likely, as the whole 

 country around Medicine Hat appears 

 to be underlaid with gas. The owner 

 of the property intends to use the nat- 

 ural gas for generating power with 

 which to ptMYip water from the Sas- 

 katchewan river to irrigate his land. 



"One-Half the Alfalfa Seed 

 Sown is Wasted Every Year" 



This statement has been made by many recognized 

 Alfalfa experts men who know what they are talking 

 about. 



They say that they secured better stands 

 of Alfalfa with 10 pounds of seed, drilled 

 with the Superior Special Alfalfa and Grass 

 Seed Drill than with ^| 20 pounds of seed 

 sown broadcast. 



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There are 20 discs on this machine set 4 inches apart. The con- 

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 an equal amount of seed in every furrow. 



None of the seed is wasted, when drilled in the ground 

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