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THE IRRIGATION MOVEMENT. 
Active preparations are now being made for the next National Irrigation 
Congress to be held about foaientae 15, at some point in the West not yet 
determined on. The last C ees which was in session an entire week in 
Los Angeles, October 1893, ted Commissioners in every Western 
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State and Territory of the Arid W These reports will show the amount | 
of arid and semi-arid land; the amount of land now irrigated, and the 
acreage believed to be se peal ; hess sources of water supply, developed and 
possible of development; the cost of procuring, storing, and delivering water 
on lands; State legislation, in aie and needed ; Natione | legislation as to 
the disposition of arid lands and government contro] of water sources; and 
such other points as may suggest themselves to each Commission as being — 
pertinent to their own State. 
The Commission for California is ee of Eli H. Murray, San 
Diego, Chairman +o C. Wright, Modesto; Will S. Green, Colusa} John A. 
Pirtle, Los Aestod, EeM, Holt, Los Anieions: Frank Robbins, San Diego, 
Secretary 
The eiticen of this State are cordially invited to correspond with any 
may possess — 
; of the National Committee can be obtained from Fred L. 
Los Angeles, California, and at ee as to the work in this State from _ 
any of the Commissioners named a 2 
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**As the season of Spring approaches, ae irrepressible small boy appears 
on the scene with sling-shot and target rifle and begins the cruel work of 
murdering our familiar birds. Most of a birds are, in the long run, 
beneficial to the horticulturist and farmer. Moreover, for every bird slain a 
da arge number are only wounded and escape, to drag out a wretched existence © 
until death relieves them. The thought of the unnecessary suffering inflicted 
upon helpless animals by the thonghtless or cruel, prompts me to take this 
opportunity to appeal to citizens of our towns and cities, urging fhem to see 
- that the laws which forbid the using of Tt or gun within the corporate: 
limits, and the laws which protect our birds, be strictly enforced.”—F. L. 
Washburn, in Bulletin No, 31 Oregon Experiment Station 
A specimen of mistletoe from Nevada is figured in Meehan’s Monthly, 
gel it has hitherto been found only in California. The mistletoe of the 
_ Old World is viscum, and those of the New World are phoradendron, lies : 
white berries are compared to pearls. 
