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Show !T3 PUBLISH BQQK Professor F. S. Harris of Experiment Station Is Author. LOGAN, Dec. 19. Dr. F. P. Karris, .L-eclcr of Iho Urah Agricultural exper;-;r exper;-;r .i'l sta rion and professor of agronomy at th? 1'iah Ayricuitural college, has just v !::;il.-:ed iKgoiiations with John Wiley oi s. Inc.. iar--e puhLshers of strictly s.'ieatific books, lor the publication of his latest azr:culr.ural 'book, "Soil Alka'i." r'no m.ir.'jsrlt't of whic'n he recently completed. com-pleted. The book, a scientific treatise on the subject of alkali, will be published as one of the Wiley agricultural series. The work covers a subject which, is j vital :o manv sections of the wes; and j j--i---ela:ly tlie Great1 basm area. It has I b-'fn rs:":maiod that aljout IZ per cent of, irrigated Ipi.ij of the United Stait-s : r;;a: "s su: fi-dunt alkali to be harm- ' :::. This mr.i:'.s tha: ther are over , ,o ..i ares o' iar.d un-h-r present anal er :s a re a. :"ectt d v illi ai kali. 1" -i -' n!- rr.anv more nhFiou aorcs of r li::1 li hind ia tae L'n itcd States tiiat do r. -- ii u;;'iL-r irrigation systems. l'r. Harris is recorhzed as one of the j for-mo?-: authorities on th!s sur-ject to- day. Since lie assume! the position of 1 a--nomist for Utah 0igl':t yrars ago l;o ' lias feiva ihis question inucii attcatioti. The results of his experimental work j have appeared in many of the leading i scientific agricultural journals of the i United States. He has also written nu-! nu-! merous experiment station bulletins on ; tho subject. Among the most recent Inquiries In-quiries for his publications are letters i from Manchuria, India, South America, 1 Mexico, Kgypt and South Africa. Two years ago Lr. Harris was selected by the Canadian Pacific Railway company to determine the feasibility of bringing hundreds of thousands of acres of land under cultivation in Canada by ono of I tiie largest single irrigation projects yet undertaken. The !and was known to con-: con-: tain aikaii and Dr. Harris was selected to say whether or not successful crop production coulu be expected on this land under irrigation. Less than a year ago a book on sugar beets, of which he is the author, was issued by tiie MacmiUan company. This book came out at a time when the production pro-duction of sugar was demanding much attention. . -A PROBATE AND OtTARDIAI.'SHIP I (Cousult coiml.r erk or tlie nsp for furlht-r iuformfetin.) dlvlHion, in and fur Halt Lai Utah. Jn the matter of tho Adolph tf. Growfp. 'dec.iafcil-The 'dec.iafcil-The petition of Wilhi.'lmira M praying for tlie :nliriiilMk.n ti J of a certain document, purport t the last will and, testament of , yf Gro'.vetr. (leeeaiai.ii, and for 'i'. of lett.TH tfHtanieutary t" y ilir:e King, lias been pet fr,r if I Krldav, thu. 2nd day of Jimu ISL'ii, at 2 o'clock V- m-. :U , courthouse, in the courtroom el in Salt Lake City, Wait tan I L-t!ih. ,. AVitnesa the clerk of fa. a tlie ccal thereof affixed, tlr.J of Jiecembor, l'Jll. Bv Jt. jr. Knell. Deputy 1 ,,r I Hamilton Oardner, Attorney titloner. - 1 |