| Show THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS DOINGS DOING Very Interesting Papers on Some Som Important Subjects AID IS ASKED AI 10 to al nit In 10 11 hull or of Ih ot of time or of lit I ot of tim the National Irrigation was I mis de voted to papers li cad ad addresses log Ing ex to the question ot of pile watering and ami reclamation ot o oark arll ark hands end and ard arid le leThe life The session Wa e to order at lt I 1 Judge It E I 1 Best D 1 C presIding Wesley ley A Stuart of o S 1 1 Wa fa introduced And an spoke 01 on What liat the National Imla lon tion alton stands for forE forIt or of the Mon Ion It E 1 F Klor tan taM Horticultural Ilet society of Jemal Mont followed wih with a paper on Practical Irrigation and Increased wal wan discussed by l I 1 II ot o othe the WIsconsin I Agricultural station A letter from Irot I fi n It of 0 the New JI Jersey Agricultural meat station wu was read I It dealt with from Irrigation In time the Rut East Voorhees Ild said hr the East alt frequently liar hl their or ruine ruined ur or partially 1 so b blac lao lac of Water due W tv lack hack of u 0 In and 1 which wi will mUll In full ful crops when hen other oIlier on con conditions are favorable In time the East ns a aIn ar II lons In this the Welt West there are other othor than han the water supply itself save under consideration which come here hue vater is II abundant from the timi streams trams and th the topography ah ot of time tha lain contributes to the dl distribution ot of tin the water to the land ther tImer are arc the lue thins of water waler rights right for manufacturIng tona Ing purposes questions of oC Prior In iii reference to 10 Oe the water ater supply at atril a clues ril and towns questions of ton Lion In collecting holding and distributing ing of which must be con can considered Throughout lie the entire East Rt A A IS II time the States State bordering on the of Is a the question I uric one worthy worth ot of study An and II its propel solution wi will mean men much to the 1 plo II In the bt t their nature Fact ties 8 should be pro lim sided Ila by the States ur or by the govern goern maul a further r stud tu of time the 11 hiniS t System I in hue TO O TIE TIlE PRESIDENT The following resolution R adopted and amI sent nl to McKinley Time The ninth annual Ion ot of the thi National irrigation congress now non In iii session In Chicago respectfully urges that In your our message to Congress you ou call attention to the national Import lace Ince ot of the ot of the forests fOrts and of time the exten extension lon and the U five use of the forest fortt and ond further that you emphasize the ne need ot at national action to stare the flood floodwaters w waters 1 that thai now go to wate ormer Governor or of Xe New Mexico lelo submitted the ruo reeo That the Congress of time Stat States l be requested t so to amend the law kno known n u as the Carp Carey act actIS IS as to snake make It apply to the Territories ad wel Well as to the state The resolution wal was referred to the committee tn on resolutions John Hen henry SmIth of Salt hit Lake then spoke apke on time ot of the ate after which a reC recess was wa taken At the afternoon Mon session I a leter letter was rea read Secretary dealing with Forestry and Irton Irrigation AId ArId plant Ute life Wa was In a 0 paper on New tw Crp Crops for ArId Lands by V botanist of the Unite United States department or of Arl culture RW CHOI FOR Fon AlD ARID LANDS Mr Ir Frederick v lOle botanist of the hi United deportment of culture 81 sPoke ke about New Crops for or Lends He le said In partIn part partIn In tran rime plains and the from A a JU I grazing region relon to o ono one In which shall an Important both the theory WY ory and costly experience indicate that the he varIeties ot of fruits cereals and oth or r mot meet successful In the humid I test nut are failures In the amId ard West The I nest pronounced successes In have hAe ome come from crepe In I Into th the Unie United State States crp from I hose ot of the world In whIch this the rulure of arM anti lands hands hiss has Nn been Ild for About I Itans Kansas this the of a cral and ouge forAn plant from 1 and Ind IndIa known mown a as corn com In 1553 83 the value or Pr the crp crop was 1 0 In JIM 0 In and In hum 1898 The wheat now so 1 grown In the great plains plain is II IIAn An fl Immigrant from The cold ll variety of alfalfa recently tn in reduced b by this department of mire from Turkestan If to effect Mn 0 ImportAnt extension In th the hon or of thIs Into the higher r nail calc northern 1111 IlA Te The date palm his Ins now been u Introduced Into nto s anti And under the al or of the ar are tinder WR way There hu ha It set aside from time w seed spine nation I a lal tumid fund the Ie do I ailment or of Is II to ton n systematic or of this plant work vork the hires years erl new plants been im which are ure capable of adding ly to 10 time the agricultural of r this country countr The ot of lushu rIce brought train Japan Jan tO ears ego b by one of the n explorers means I a saYing tl LI Louisiana r rice planters of nf a million and lcd a hal imai dollars Ir per year tar The West will 1 especially by y thelo these Importations of n new cr craps lie bo lause ause h he agriculture Is om corn l nsw and undeveloped and flora attractive and poll bi t O both to the ex experimenter and I Ithe the me practical An In Sue SueI I See the topic of 1 a paper by James editor ot of time Forter Forester of f Washington ton D C The Water Vater Supply ot of Cities wn the ie of n a paper b by J W Vi rown pr of C the Forest school New Inen haven Conn Time he last paper r of the afternoon was wasI RI b L I G 0 rowers Powers chief statistician In barge of at agriculture census r 4 of the United States Statu on Irrigation anI sad Developments lEmlI RE HR REPORT POUT PORT At After tl the conclusion ot of time the papers H Booth of LO Los Cal haIr chair chairman H man of the he committee 11 on Its II report recommendIng the Thomas Thoma I F Walh ash D C fist vice le Governor I of New Mexico second vice le president P j Thurber New York ork secretary 1 II n H Nevada It I was wa recommended that mer members n of time executive and on oil be named by vice president bl I from each State Time committee f also alo list a field assocIation meting meeting he e held at Colorado 1 Spring olo In 1901 just prior or subsequent to the congress at Creek Colo uio The committee recommended that this next annual session In or of time the congress b be beheld held at Buffalo X N Y V In October 1901 10 |
