Show ARID LANDS IN IONTANA Conditions Heretofore Unknown to Conditons Hcretforo Unlmqw Discovered Agricultural Bureau Washington Sept 27Arid land con Montana hnrcloforo I ditions In central Ionlma I unknown to the Department of Agricul I ure were discovered In a tour of Inspection In-spection which Elwcotl Mead In charge of Irrigation worl of the department has Just completed Mr I Mead snyn that he found much larger areas of arid laud then with crops In Huccejiaful growth ori them than he had over supposed sup-posed were possible In a majority ot seasons he says crops H grow on these tracts without any Irrigation and with very little water much less than Is I actually required for growing crops these ciops can be grown very fiucccsa fully every year The area Involved I along the mountain slopes south and east of Great Falls Mont The Department of Agriculture regards re-gards the discovery of these arid land and coopera conditions as important tive work will be undertaken by the Government wJ Is purposed to study the means of saving and making available avail-able the water supply from the mountain moun-tain slopes Government work will ho Under the direction of Prof Fortior tile director of the Montana Agricultural Agricultu-ral Experiment station Similar non irrigated arid land crops are grown In thevMilk River valley In Montana and of the Dakotas In many parts Dakots |