The Desert Blooms 



Top. — With and without — a striking illustration of the trans- 

 formation worked by the application of water. The dry 

 land outside of the fence on the Minidoka Reclamation 

 Project is a sagebrush desert; that inside, a fertile field of 

 alfalfa. The water used on this project comes in large 

 part from the National Forests at the headwaters of the 

 Snake River. 



Bottom. — An apple orchard on the Boise Project of the 

 Reclamation Service in western Idaho on land formerly 

 covered with sagebrush. This project is able to furnish 

 water for the irrigation of 230,000 acres, includes a popu- 

 lation of 47,000, and in 1915 produced crops valued at 

 $2,327,400. A considerable part of the water supply 

 for the project is protected by the Boise and Payette 

 National Forests. 



