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-"""" MILLER FREEMAN

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The Review is the name of a week-ly paper started at Toppenish, on theYakima Indian Reservation. If theReview will exert its influence to-ward throwing open the reservationto settlement, and thus bringing un-der cultivation and making taxableproperty of a large area of fine agri-cultural land it will be rendering agreat service not only to that sectionbut to the entire state.

Stockbreeders who may figure onshipping pure bred livestock into theUnited States from Canada or otherforeign countries, will find all neces-sary information regarding U. S. gov-ernment requirements in a bulletinjust issued by the United States De-partment of Agriculture and which isentitled "Regulations for the Certifi-cation of Associations of Breeders ofPurebred Livestock and Books of Rec-ords of Pedigrees." This bulletin givesa list of the livestock associationswhose certificates of registration arerecognized by the government. Anyoneanywhere can get a copy of this bul-letin by writing for it, addressing theSecretary of Agriculture, Washington,D. C.

The National Irrigation Congresswill meet next year at Portland, Or.

The change in the Pure Food law,by which the retailer was releasedfrom the responsibility of. adultera-tion, provided he secured a guaranteefrom the manufacturer, was securedby the editor of the Trade Register,in the presence of two Seattle businessmen, the pure food commissioner mak-ing this and one or two other suggest-ed changes, one affecting baking pow-ders.—Trade Register.

To hear him tell it one would thinkthe editor of the Trade Register is thewhole thing around the pure food com-missioner's office. We believe he didanpbint himself as special advisor tothe commissioner when the office wasfirst created several years ago. butlie was soon given to understand tintbe couldn't come in and tell the com-missioner what to do. In view of thenumerous vicious and entirely unwar-ranted attacks of the T^ade Register

""on the commissioner, it is not likely

that Mr McDonald looks to that onar-tpr for advice as to how to administerthe affairs of his office.

A bache^r cattle king who bad be-eorno tired of maverlcking around thehomo corral in single blessednessEntered into Chicago on a wife-bunt-

' <? expedition. He scoured trip canVf)"s and 4iothills of the windy cltv"n'l final]- '^ated a bunch of *****001.-ing, h«-.,fprs. we ll fed and trimiv""'t. in a dpnartmont store. Afterbe boss rancher had assured him

that the brands on the beauties wereduly registered, the man from thewest galloped into the middle of thebunch and proceeded to cut out theprettiest. He gradually worked herto the edge of the herd as the othersshied off, and at the first pitch of hislariat the noose settled down overher and he had but little difficulty inputting the cupid brand over the rightone. He then rushed her aboard thecars and hiked for the home corral,where she is grazing in the richestof feed on the green hills of eternalhappiness, the star of the whole out-fit.Field and Farm.

The Cultivation of Mushrooms isthe title of a bulletin recently issuedby the U. S. Department of Agricul-ture and gives the latest informationon this subject. The Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, will sendit free to any address.

As nearly as can be determined,more than $200,000,000 has alreadybeen spent in the United States forconstructing irrigation canals and reservoirs for the distribution of waterand for preparing land to receive irri-gation water. Over 10,000.000 acresare today being watered and some-thing like 15,000,000 acres more canbe watered by the ditches alreadyconstructed. The cost of this irriga-tion may seem large, but returns jus-tify the expenditure. In fifteen statesand territories the very existence oflife depends upon the ability to useriver and flood water for growingcrops. And the farmers are not theonly ones benefited. Cities like Den-ver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake, LosAnge:es, were created by and dependent upon irrigation. And there arestill millions of acres to be wateredand numberless cities to be developedby the application of water to the soilof the West. The national irrigationlaw is at work and many vast enter-prises under way. Nearly $30,000,000is now available for government irri-gation works. Do not be impatient ifresults do not come as soon as youthink they should. Remember thatconstructing mighty reservoirs andsystems of ditches is no small taskand cannot be accomplished in a day

or a season.

We notice that the old reliab'eStudebaker wagon has come to thefore again. At the St. Louis Exposi-tion the exhibit of this company cap-tured the grand prize, which is thehighest award. This award coveredpractically everything manufacturedby the Studebaker Bros, wagons ofevery description for both farm andcity use, together with all styles ofharness and the accessories that goalong with such lines of manufacture.

The annual report of the AlaskaAgricultural Experiment Stations for1903, by Special Agent Georgeson hasbeen received at this office. Anyonewanting to get an idea of the possi-bilities in farming in Alaska shouldwrite the Secretary of Agriculture,Washington, D. C. for a copy.

Drainage InvestigationsBulletin No. 147 of the Office of Ex-

periment Stations, issued by the U S.Department of Agriculture, is a reportof drainage investigations carried o^by that office during 1903, under thedirection of Elwood Mead, chief of ir-rigation and drainage investigations.This is the most important work ofthe kind attempted by the depart-ment, thus forming a new featureof investigations along agriculturallines; yet, judging from this report,it covers a broad and important fieldThe bulletin has a special practicalvalue from the fact that local &*}*.conditions have been examined and

dealt with and the methods of treat-ment which are applicable to ea?bcase are briefly discussed. The widerange, specific differences of treat-ment and financial and sanitary im-portance of drainage In its relation

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to the improvement of farm lands,make it one of the most unique sub-jects which engage the attention ofagriculturists in many localities. Athe report says, so many phases ofthe drainage problem are involvedthat any investigation resolves itselfinto an examination of individualcases in each locality and the par-ticular difficulties there encountered.The application of drainage to irri-gated lands is shown to occupy animportant place in the restoration offields which have passed beyond thelimits of profitable production by rea-son of over-irrigation; or perhaps,putting it in another way, by reasonof lack of natural drainage facilitiesto care for the surplus water used inirrigation.

Elevating Influence of HorticultureThe art of horticulture has had its

attractions for men and women in allages, and the wisest and best havefound delight and instruction in itspursuit. The festive and warlike mon-archs lon the banks of the Euphratesspent their leisure hours on their re-turn from expeditions of rapine andconquest in hanging gardens that re-vealed their beauty and shook theirodors from the lofty summits of theirpalaces, the wonder of the world. Insuch a place can one find the recrea-tion of a passing hour a respite fromweary care, a study and an employ-ment for a busy life. Here the poetcan find inspiration for his sweetestsong, the philosopher food for hismost profound meditations, and thedevout a persuasive call to worship.

Were we to press this subject to itslimits, we might recall the fact thatthe gardens of the earth, wrought intoforms of incomparable beauty by theskillful training of human hands, arethe types and prophesies of all that isbright and ideal in life. It is an ad-mitted truth that horticulture is bothancient and honorable. Pursued as anart it is a most useful industry, en-larging the number and improving thequality of those products of the earththat add immeasurably to the satis-faction and comfort of human life. Itcultivates the taste, refines the sensi-bilities and educates the spirit in itshigher realms of grace and beauty. Itis a higher department of agriculture,requiring a more specal training anda more careful study.

The luscious fruit, the juicy berrythat in' its exquisite flower suggeststhe utmost limit of excellence, maynot afford the solid nourishment ofthe wheat loaf, but they greatly en-large the range of human enjoymentand give life a new interest. Thepansy, creeping low upon the ground,the climbing clematis, with its fineshade and delicate beauty, reflectsupon the inmost soul their own un-rivalled colorings. They speak a newlanguage, which all mankind instinct-ively desires to understand. In itsadvancement horticulture indicates inmarked degree the march of civiliza-tion—of progress.

Each fruit made choicer or moreplentiful for the use of the people,each flower made more perfect, eachshrub and tree that shows a moregraceful sweep of its boughs, touchesa higher range of sensibilities, reachespurer and better impulses and ex-pands the meaning of life. First inthe order of things must naturallycome its finer equipments, its moreelegant adornments. There is a nat-ural hunger that must first be satis-fied, but there yet remains a hungerof the spirit that yearns for a betternourishment. —Jas Montgomery in Pu-yallup Valley Tribune.

Human and Bovine TuberculosisMuch controversy has been had as

to whether these two forms of tuber-culosis were Identical in character.Koch, the most eminent living bac-teriologist, maintains that such Identyhas not been proved. Very eminentauthorities have declared to the con-trary. Sir Michael Foster, who Is atthe head of the British Royal Com-mission, has lately made a very Inter-

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esting report on this much mootedquestion. This report shows thatwhere cattle are inoculated with hu-man tuberculosis the disease is iden-tical in all respects with tuberculosiswhich originates in the cattle.

The investigation is not yet com-pleted, but the results thus far ob-tained admonish us that the wisestcourse for every breeder and dairy-man is to thoroughly test his cattle atleast once a year with tuberculin. Itis worth doing this for the cattle'ssake alone, and it adds to the import-ance of the test to have the milk freefrom all taint of this much dreadeddisease— Dairyman.

Mr. HomeseekerDo you want to get the latest infor-

mation regarding irrigation farming?Write to E. F. Benson, Prosser, Wash,and he will send you free of chargea pamphlet just issued, which tellsall about the resources and opportuni-ties of the Lower Yakima valley, thesection that will grow faster in thenext ten years than any other part ofthe Northwest. Land can be pur-chased there for a small amount down,and the returns from crops will meetthe later payments.

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