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Show Valuable Fruit kflairlcs are anions the It of our fruits It has it any n an who i an ml I i I iipplci In tho ry t enu four hours will .out and f this tlestrocr hi" al r d f istened Us i) tern i i lei will van-t van-t mom i i tent form of let wrt Mis N. S ' "fl ic much to bo health TJ na to those M licit makes chemical Jfilros or ilovltnlUes an mi to a i Hrtttty on tho ttirtliy mi ter created In k smiti nl rheumatic ai i i rnatlve bake 1 flaw i Hiked applo with e njm llour, slft-H slft-H am h ithful linked na i i tit for a king ' P if not too nclrt yi v u- the cream, In "'V in i iuro ellsticss, "t'n tu 1 ate children or i t I ooked Johnny tt t ot mildly "' In i like dice, are "r II ii many liouie-"' liouie-"' ni r r mittu. up- "'- ic ot irioin .'" i 1 1 intake, f I In l lent niln, to i-1 i kc thfm much " iipiintcil up ,!, ' 'Ii y are meie 1 ' r ' Ii fruit, which ,u" Mil h ot lh " ,. ' ' 1 Is IlllOttC ""i inr n ituro umie r iu ) ioi e situ. " nod ilio up A ii ices unl .IIMl ,' l nlm0,t " '''"' l -lie by the " "on or ma constltu. Irj '" "tiwhole- '"InAgrleulture "" " on ind Fo rnpldlj ; " ' a , that we do a",(- ' ' ses whereby ""in .finances operas u"1 " exeitecl uy tmt i, ' " asrleul- l "J i llv be reck- "" In "an I broad- ""on,) n ' ," nt "!! i an i ' w'r f' reach- Huiii i ' ln ,',sul", I aiinn . ,v'"i prnc niln, ",J '' ""'8'". l,o 'Ctendlm be- m "' l u mil rhcle al.i. , '"' ,'ll their ir h ., lnwln llnej of il!,, u tlentlniH of -lh " aieih ( w " " If they but h T" ' ' Hut ' sr- I w mon distrust of i ' II ippeailnjr i lrk' ni anlns of tin. no i, , l r "'I science 'In e or u l"lemntlzel ""liii,1.1" ,nMlt" i j ' 'urnM, ex ict ' of h . Ti ' ,1"0 toerlnc; '" on , rlry' "fl " l .Marvi-'0 1m,'' thlt II,, arln- condlUouo ot ""llulf a tort ot unlver. slty extension the many associations nnd societies of allied Interests tho State fairs and stock shows, worlds expositions all have their special value In disseminating knowledge of the possibilities pos-sibilities of Improv 1 methods, and we say. In all mo lesi) t the agricultural agricul-tural press has Us shaio In tho ren-nalsnnce ren-nalsnnce of the rustic I-ast unler this head but not least, and wo earnestly hope to see It first In the near futuie. Is the primary work nl-leady nl-leady begun In rural schools along lines of prnctlcul agrlcultunl training This matter deserves sieclnl nttentlon by iducntois 1-lementiiry lessons In vego-tablo vego-tablo hlolog), geologj mil chemistry, showing respectively the habits of growth Iho fonnntlon of soil and tho plant food elements In the soil, would constitute an educational force, tho results of which nro Incalculable. The real kindergarten of the future will he the chlliicns (.uidens mado under tho wise direction of the country school mnam b) Ihe barefooted country bos nnd girls Column s Hural Worll Cautions in Blackleg Cases ninckleg Is often so suddenly fatnl that nn anlmnl well at night may be found dead In the morning or It is too helplessly lame lo be moved when discovered dis-covered The owner wonders how It died and piocecds to make n, post mortem mor-tem examination oi iltuches somo vnluc to the hide nnd Ins It removed In both cases blond and other animal llilld soak Into the ground Sometimes Some-times the carcass Is left to nt above Ifinund und the ranch dogs hivoa hniw lit It nt their own sweet will a most icpiehciislble pinctice us It uinj cause the death of the dog or the dlseasn gcims mi) pass uninjured through Its body nnd he deposited In the net of defecation III other places At other times the encase Is burled obviously It Is easiest to dig the gruve beside It peihiipn becauro tho learn Ins an objection to drawing dead meat, leihaps because they nre too busy to be si nrcd for the scivlio und thcro are not human hands enough to remove It 1 Ithei from carelessness or Ignorance, or both, tho struck hulloclc Is Invariably burled wheie It died Uhat of that? Partour. In his Investigation Into the causes of anthrax found the soil about Iho ciaves of anlniils dead from the disease, after being Interred ten or twelvo months, teeming with spores nnd he credlta tho iniih worm with leliig the rnuie of this by raising Iho upoiek of the Iwclllus In Us upheavals ut the soil It Is Just as easy o ac-count ac-count for Ihe piesenee of bacillus or blackleg and It Is posslblo that o her niilnmla Ruizlne oei tlm giounl in time to come pick up the spores It has been objected anl tho same nplies to nnthrnx. that animals arc. immetlmes stiiiclc when confined In shuh or )iuds nnd which hive novel been outside The answer to this Is tlMt they may dilnk from Ififeslel wn-tci wn-tci or eat fmm fndler cut fiom an In fecttd source Carcasses nip often nir lid ubove Ihe water suppl) and It Is ciio fur the sores to be washed clown by tho sprlnirs Again these spores juo so teniclous of life that they will sir vlve Iho nnkhg of the !""" I'll" '' ind this fodder may readll, 'f It The moial of this as that the enr-cnim enr-cnim 0 animals dying from b lackleg or for the matter of that ".?!'" "J"? tn specific germs, should either. Po in- j plentiful supplj of qui kllme The skin should not be broken as the value or tie hi lc in next to nothing In fact IV i. w"rlh ,hc """ of taking off md ii It w re worth four times an mil h It wo i dd not piv to run an) risk Held na I arm Terms Used ln Measuring Water. Prof gamiifl Tortler formerl) of the Agrliultural cnlleee of Utah now ell. rector of the Montana experiment s(n-tlon s(n-tlon given some clear definitions of terms used In meanmlng water as follows fol-lows 1 mm 1SS5 to 1S9S the mlnrs Imh box was the only legal method of mas lrlig lirlHiln wnier and the mrt deitees rf that period in lolatlon to nil water right stilts are expressed In Mon-tana Mon-tana statutoi. inches This box which was deslsned to measuie inlneis Inches mnslsted gen-erall) gen-erall) of a short flumi having a bottom bot-tom nnd two si les U the upper enl a boa i tliri" Inches wide was fastene 1 six Inches above the top ef the Moor Tht o enlng form"! between the lower else of thi I nunl anl the floor was controlled bv a slide oi gate which moved horliontallv When the box was In plare the Irrigation stream tu be measured vvas turnel on nnd the I slide so ndjusted that the surface of the water nt the upper end of tho box was level with the top of the three Inch board It was an easy way of measuring wuter under a six-inch pres sure for the dlstnncc fiom the top of the three-Inch boaid to the center of the opening was intended to be six Inchei In measuring a stream If tho slide were drawn out llfteen Inches ut the time the water was level with tho top of the tluec Inch bo ml the opening open-ing hus made would be six Inches high and fifteen Inches long and contain ninety square Inches The amount of water flowing through this opening of ninety square Inches under nn average head of six Inches would represent ninety miners Inches Thl metho 1 of measuring water has been seveiely criticised by the engineers engi-neers of the State Their objections may be summarized as follows. ' (1) It Is not accurate ' (2) It can only bo used to measure small streams (3) It is not adapted to continuous measurements (4) It favors the largo consumer (5) The flow may be considerably Increased or diminished by slight chanzs '(6) Miners' Inches vnr) In quantity In different localities of the est ' In 1SDS the State Legislature estab-llshed estab-llshed a new standard unit defined the Montana miners' Inch and repealed nil laws In conlllct therewith This enactment enact-ment Is still In force and the stnndurd units with others will bo described under un-der the next heullnc The stnndard unit for flowing water In Montana ns well as In most ot the Western Slates and Territories. Is n solid, or cubic foot of water, moving nt the rnte of a lineal foot In one second sec-ond of time Uach foot In length of a flume one fool wldo nnd one foot high Inside measurement an 1 flowing full of water would contain a solid or cubic foot of water 1 i v If this flume were placed on such n grade that the average aver-age rate of ilow of water within It would be Just one foot of distance for each second of tlmo It would carry n volume equal to the standard unit. This unit Is often abbreviated Into tho two nuiiin Bruiim-iuu, ' In considering this standard for flowing watei. Irrigators should not conclude that a volume of a certnln definite size Is necessary. It will bo npparent to all (hat a Hume six Inches wide and six Inches high ful of water flowing at the average rnte of four feet per second would also deliver one cubic foot per second ln general the flow of any stream may be obtained by multlplslne the width and depth of the water channel In feet by the average rate of flow In feet A flutncf for example, ex-ample, which Is six feet wide Inside and rnrrles water to a depth of one and one-half feet would contain fixl-ij or nine square feet of water nrei Now, If It Is found that Ihe average rate of flow Is two feet pel second the total volume Is 5x9 or eighteen cubic feet per second In Ihe case of a ditch In earth with n curved bottom the area Is not so readll) found but the principle prin-ciple Involved Is the same "Montana Miners' Inch Like tho bushel inonstire for gialn the temi miners' Inch la likely to bo continued long after thnt method of w ater measurement meas-urement has been nbandnned I do not know of a slnglo Montnna farmer thnt now measures his grain by means or a bushel measure and et Iho large majority ma-jority Indicate their yields In bushels per acre he lies of all kinds have now become so common that the oll-faah-loned measure of our grandfathers tlmo Ii no longer use I rhre hnve been like changes In the devices uscl to measuro water and while wo still letnln tho term miners' Inch we seldom nsceilaln thn flow by tho miners Inch box 1 or small streams of water such ns are applied to orchard und garden tiacts the miners' In'h la n convenient unit nnd theie arc advantages In continuing con-tinuing Us use In adopting n now stnndard tho members of our State Leg. Islature foresaw the extended uso of tho old unit and so defined It In ncruiate terms I orty (10j Montnna miners' Inches ate the exact equivalent of one cubic foot per second An Inlgatlon stream containing eighty miners Inches v ould be described as two second-feet by the new stnn lard one containing 1:0 miners' Inches ns threo second foot, and so on "Acre-root The second-foot and the miners Inch can onl) be used for water In motion It Is often convenient In Irrigation Ir-rigation to describe a certain volume of water In a Mate of rest The cubic feet might hove been adopted for this purpose had It not been too small It would hnve been but a drop In n bucket when compared with thu large quantl. ties used In Irrlfcatlon. Accordingly Ihe acre foot has beenf quite generally adopted , This unit tepresents the quantity of water which would tovcr an aero to the depth of one foot Since there nre 13 Eft) squure feet 111 nn acre, an acre, foot contains 4S 660 cubic feet Itnlnfalt Is inensilied In depth over tho surfnee nnd of lato )ears the tendency has been to inenpuiei water for Irrigation Iu the tamo way Ono frequently heals It statel by piatclcal lirlnalois that fort) acres of spring wheat will require forty mlnets' Indus Hut this statement con. vevs no clellnlte Iden as to the actual amount of waler applied to the wheal Held because the number of days tho Mioim has been allowed to un on tho flelt Is not given When however one states that sixty acre feet wero applied In two hrlkntlons It shows that a cer-tain cer-tain definite volume cif water vvas used during stated periods and taht this volume was sufficient to have covered the ftrrty-aere field to a depth of one and ouo-liair feet,' A Wonderful Dry Land Grass. Tho above cut represents n sample ot ' Tull Meadow Oat Grass " or Kvorhreeu grass the samples to the right and left being r)e grass and orchard grass re-tpoctlvel), re-tpoctlvel), and put Into the picture for tho purposo of comparison. T lie grasses were biouUit to tho odlce of The Inter, mnuntntn Farmer and nancluuau by Mr John 1). Plfe, general manager of the Molino Plow ccmpati). and lie vouches for the stntt nient that the glass shown Is onl) n fall sample of the nop on a largo Held that had no possible show fm Irrigation nnd never was Irrigated. Tho fact, Hut this grass grows to such height and with such nuttltlou makes It u priceless acquisition acquisi-tion to the arid countr), ranking second only to luce rn ns It Is u Standby for tho pasture and range. Tho prnsscs show n are from Ihe ranch of Di C. A Hoover of Moiltiiellcr, Ida , and the tall oat grasn Is considered by him to he the very best nf a large number num-ber of grasses tried during the past ten years Dr Hoover furnishes the following fol-lowing notes regarding the seeding of the land to the oat grass Tall Meadow Oat ot I.vergieen grass (Tlatlon Avenn) grown without an) artificial ar-tificial Irrigation on the south sldo of a hill which was covered with heavy sagebrush ln 1S91 Ploughed, seeded to winter r)c, )lelded one rutting with scanty second growth Lund reploughed early In spring of 1101 nnd seeded twen- t pounds to acio April S6th, come well In about threo or four weeks, grew by August to tho height of two mil one-half one-half to three feet heading out t'ut with mower and as It was thin allowed to lay as n miilrh resulted In tho plants vet) mateilally Mewling where two to five steams existed In a short tlmo six to fouiteen showed this stoollng seems to continue, still does not bunch This sample cut on Jul) 4, 100J Have the same kind of grass llnec )ears oil which shows n much better condition both taller and thicker. L"irn from experience ex-perience thnt should not he seeded less than twentyllvo to thirty founds per ncio Have fort) ncirs put In In Xln) of this )ear thlrt) pounds to nero thut now stands six to ten Inches high thorough!) thor-ough!) covering the ground, nnd Is very thrift), shows no effect of drought. Also hive tried holh fall nnd spiing seeding but am convince 1 that Iu our section with uncertnln moisture In the fall that spring seeding Is the best, but the land must be gotten fully ready In the fall and prepared In the ver) best posslhlo wa), made even llko for sugar beets to get Iho best lesult As soon In the spring na It Is possible to get upon the land how seed broadcast as they will not feel through ill 111 Hni-row Hni-row and c ross-harron with high-tooth hanow, then roll seed being light and chaflle lolling Is neccssir) to prevent blowing nwa). Oiound must be moist nnd warm ns seed Is not nn easy germl-nutor. |