‘WASHINGTON LETTER. 
9 feet. About one-third of this is 
: found to be ample. The water users 
f£ Greeley and neighboring districts 
in Colorado thought their crops 
would burn up unless they had a 
“miner’s inch of water to the acre. 
Now they are raising crops on the 
‘same ground that are worth about 
four times as much with one-fourth 
the water formerly used. So import- 
a ant is the need of furthering the in- 
Yestigation of irrigation that several 
Western States are now cooperating 
with the Department in the prosecu- 
tion of the studies. Irrigation is be- 
ing taken up in humid regions also, 
‘in order to insure against droughts. 
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_ Candidates For the Exposition. 
One of the most interesting con- 
tests before the Present Congress is 
‘that between San Francisco and 
New Orleans for indorsement as the 
place where the Exposition to cele- 
brate the opening of the Panama 
‘Canal shall be held. Both cities 
have established headquarters in 
Washington and both cities have 
‘sent strong delegations of the lead- 
‘ing men, not only of those cities, but 
of their States, to urge their claims 
‘upon Congress. At the present time 
it is impossible to know just which 
‘one has the better chance, but both 
cities have gone into the fight with 
determination, and each would pre- 
é fer to see no action taken at all 
ather than to have _ preference 
Siown to its rival. Both camps are 
I ow well organized and they have 
settled down for a long and sturdy 
pull with the consciousness that they 
‘may find the session all too short to 
fig cht out the campaign in which i: 
are engaged. 
Consular Notes. 
American manufacturers of dairy 
machinery are reminded that the 
butter industry of Australia has as- 
“sumed vast proportions in recent 
years, being the fourth greatest 
source of prosperity in that colony. 
In the Netherlands dairying is 
“more profitable than raising cattle 
for beef, which is only incidental 
‘to the dairy. The average cost of 
keeping and feeding a cow for 
dairying is $60 a year, and the 
average amount realized from each 
‘cow during that period is $88. The 
average value of the land for dairy- 
ng purposes is $400 an acre. — Hol- 
‘steins are preferred -to other breeds 
of cattle, with Jerseys second in es- 
pem. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Dairy farming in Sweden has 
made more progress in the last 
forty years than at any time during 
the past seven centuries. There are 
about 2,000 dairies in Sweden. The 
average cost of keeping a cow is 
$75 a year, while the gross amount 
realized varies from $80 to $110 per 
animal. 
American interests have taken 
over several nitrate works in Chile 
during the last year, and are nego- 
tiating for several more. The ex- 
ports of nitrates to the United 
States in 1909 amounted to 458,081 
tons, nearly four times as much as 
in 1907. 
Two consignments of Chinese 
pork consisting of nearly 10,000 ecar- 
casses were recently refused a land- 
ing at Liverpool because they did 
not comply with certain local tech- 
nical regulations. 
The number of foreign-owned 
farms in Morocco is increasing. 
Many of them are supplied with up- 
to-date agricultural machinery and 
implements. 
A California flour company is the 
only American concern of the kind 
which maintains its own house in 
Hong-Kong, and this is to be closed 
and the business turned over to com- 
mission men. The reason for this 
seems to be that Manila is becoming 
the distributing point for American 
flour in the Orient. Another reason 
is the decrease in the: demand for 
American flour in that part of the 
world, owing to the development of 
wheat growing in Northern China. 
A stock company has _ recently 
completed a block of houses in a 
suburb of Frankfort, each house 
containing two rooms, a kitchen and 
appurtenances with cellar and 
ground space for each tenant. The 
average rental will be $7.14 a 
month. 
Slow progress is being made in the 
rehabilitation of Messina, the Sicil- 
ian city which was destroyed by an 
earthquake. Official returns show 
that 27,523 bodies have been recov- 
ered from the ruins, and that 32,477 
still remain to be exhumed. The 
rebuilding in permanent form has 
barely commenced, but there is a 
great deal of activity and the wages 
have about doubled on account of 
the demand for labor. Thousands of 
women who received 16 to 18 cents 
a day now receive 60 cents on the 
extensive drainage works’ which 
have been undertaken to combat the 
prevalent malaria on the Calabrian 
Coast. 
Consul White reports that the 
cultivation of the seedless oranges 
27 
in Bahia, Brazil, is extensive and 
that land suitable to the cultivation 
of this fruit can be had at from $5 
to $10 an acre. 
Expert wheat cultivators who 
have been employed by the Minister 
of Agriculture to instruct Brazilian 
farmers are expected to arrive very 
shortly. 
Ten new high power locomotives 
and 12 additional first class Pull- 
mans have been ordered for a Bra- 
zilian railroad. 
TURN OF THE YEAR } 
When Summer blessed the Earth, 
A thousand joys had birth; 
Lony Gays and short, sweet nights, 
Rlossom and fruit delights; 
And walks amid the maze 
Cf vine-grown woodland ways;— 
And then we prayed: ‘‘Dear Sumnier, 
siay, 
Nor leave us grieving by the way’’. 
Winter now rules the Earth, 
And Nature’s sounds of mirth 
Are hushed, and stark and dead 
Her treasures ’round are spread; 
Short days and wind-blown nights, 
Chill fields and barren heights;— 
But, kindly housed and warmly clad, 
Winter has charms to make us glad. 
—From December Farm Journal. 
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