Drainage and Reclamation of Soil. TO 'WASH OUT ALKALI An Experimental Station to bo Established. Es-tablished. Cooperation of the Farmers Necessary to Malto the Move. Tho attendance at the meeting held last Saturday afternoon in this city uudcr the auspicc3 of the F P & C Assu ., to discuss tho Alkali sltttatian, was poorly poor-ly attended tlicro being only about thirty proscul. This was duo to the busy season and owing to tho meeting uot being advertised in this section. John P. Holmgren was chairman of the meeting. Hon. Chas. F. Brown, Drainage Drain-age Engineer of tho ofllcc of Experiment Experi-ment Stations, Washington, I). C , gave a very Interesting talk ou "Drainage and Reclamation of Soil from Alkali " He gave a detailed account of several experiments ex-periments and rcfercd to work djuo in this county by soma of tho widu awake funneri Tilo drainage was tho principal princi-pal theory advanced. Two imp)rtaut questions ventilated wcro: 1st The necessity of co-operation to establl-.li main outlets. 2nd Co-operation In securing secur-ing proper drainage laws. Tho diUrlcU effected with alkali are divided into four, Phldtn ;. Garland, Itowcvillo and Corinuo the former place being tho least effected aud the latter place showing the worst condition. These districts embrace all the land from Fielding on the north to Corluue on the .south, showing Fielding and Garland tho least effected with alkali. Tho object of the meeting was to get the co-operation of the farmer of the valley in the establishment of an experiment experi-ment stat I "in In this section. After Mr. Drowns address, dlicusslou were taken up on tho subject aud several tracts of land mentioned us sultabh) for tho stn-lion stn-lion No definite action was taken. However, this Is only the Hr.st of a series of mcetlugs that will he held and wu hope soon to announce that a tract of laud has bcin selected and that tho Experiment Ex-periment Station li a go. Chairman lolmgrcn, iu behalf of the F P it 0 Assu , said this matter had the hearty Indorsement of all its members. Among the tracts of land meutioned fur the station were tho Japanese farm, Uaird farm and the Adams farm at Thatcher. From 20 to 50 acrui li the am tint of land dcnlrcd for the station. After thu meeting meet-ing the FPtfcC Ass:t. held a short session to attend to some Important business.