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pie of the United States, and we recommend the enactment) of 
laws looking to the conservation of water resources for irrigation, 
water supply, power, and navigation, to the end that navigable 
and other streams may be fully utilized for every purpose. 
"We especially urge on the Federal Congress the immediate 
adoption of a wise, active, and thorough waterway policy, pro- 
viding for the prompt improvement of our streams and conserva- 
tion of their watersheds required for the uses of commerce and 
the protection of the interests of our people. 
"We recommend the enactment of laws looking to* the preven- 
tion of waste in the mining and extraction of coal, oil. gas and 
other minerals with a view to their wise conservation for the use 
of the people, and to the protection of human life in the mines. 
"Let us conserve the foundations of our prosperity." 
OUR BEST RICE FARMER. 
The best rice farmer in the United States — or in the world — 
is a Japanese living near Webster, Tex. , His name is Seito Sai- 
bara. Saibara raises an average of 115 bushels to the acre. Sai- 
bara began with a 320-acre farm, but now controls about 1,000 
acres. He came to this country less than four years ago from 
Kioto. He has become an American citizen and is bringing up 
his son to American ways and teaching him that the United 
States is the greatest country in the world. Seito was a member 
in Japan of the imperial parliament. While serving in that ca- 
pacity he met Dr. S. A. Knapp, special demonstration expert of 
the American agricultural department, who had been sent to 
Japan to collect some new kinds of rice seed. He became con- 
vinced that he would like to come to America, and he sold his 
possessions and came. He is rated at about $100,000. — 
Advertiser. 
FARMERS' BULLETINS. 
farmers' bulletin 320. 
Experiment Station Work, XLVI. Compiled from the publica- 
tions of the Agricultural Experiment Stations. Pp. 32. 
Contents: Fish Fertilizer — Reclamation of salt marshes — 
Bermuda hay — Protein content of forage crops — Quality in 
wheat — Potato spraying — Anesthetics in forcing plants — Fatten- 
ing cattle for market — Cotton-seed meal and com silage for cows 
— Carbonated milk — Preservation of fence posts. 
