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Show IRRIGATION PLANNED FOB ALKALI LANDS. SEATTLE. Wash., May 6. The Agricultural Agricul-tural department of the United States Government Is about to undertake to demonstrate to the farmers in the Yakima Ya-kima valley that the 3000 acres and over of alkali lands In that vicinity can be reclaimed and within two years made the most valuable agricultural lands in the section. 8imilar demonstrations are to be made in other parts of the country, all with the view of turning the 4.000.000 acres of alkali lands in the West, which In their present state are worthless, to farming uses. Thomas H. Means, an agent of the department, arrived In the city today from Washington. He will proceed to North . Yakima and In the Wide HoUow valley will build the experimental experi-mental station. |