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Show MANY ASK ABOUT IRRIGATION Number of Eastern People Seeking Information of United States Increases In-creases 40 Per Cent, in Year. The number of caMern people seeking seek-ing Information about agricultural coii-4 coii-4 1 lion i In the Irrigate. territory of the west has Increased more than 40 per cent, during the la.st year. sa Dr. A. C. True, director of experiment stations. In his annual report ' Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Wilson. "The thousand of settlers who have ' made their homes on Irrigated lands i luring three years " be a.!ds, "are tor the most part Ignorant of Irrigation i practices and methods. To assist them as well as the old settlers, who 1 llso are confronted with new proh- i ems from time to time, agents have keen maintained throughout the year 1 la fen western states and In three bert part of the year." 1 |