Imperial press., 1901-04-20

Large shipments of nursery stool are being made from Orange county tC Phoenix, AriZ.
 There are five cheese factories at Sar Felipe, Santa Clara county which turl out 10000 pounds of cheese weekly.
 Texas papers are Dragging abou cabbage heads weighing 15 pounds, anC onions measuring 17 inches in circum ference. That's nothing; ask Murdocl of Westminster how about caulifloweri that you can dance on.
 American Gardening ridicules the eff forts being made to have law passed by the New York Legislature to protec purchasers of nursery stock agains San Jose scale. When we remember the vast expense and labor and loss i'm posed upon California fruit growers by the scale, their fumigating tents, eva nI1e washes, and sprays innumerable are forcible reminders that regulation. can hardly be too stringent, if they will regulate; and protection too costly, if it protects. Will method prove effective? is the only sensible question that properly applies in thi! case.
 A large amount of bone will accumu late about family residence; also : large amount of wood ashes. Thest combined form a most valuable fertil izer for fruit of all kinds, especially grapes. The bone may be broken il small pieces and mixed with the soi about the roots of trees and vines, ol the bones may be mixed with the ashes when they will be dissolved, and the mass scattered on the surface. method we once used with a very marked effect was to punch holes ir the ground around the trees and vines with hand spike, a dozen or more holes to each tree, from four to eight inches deep, and then, with basket of broken bones, drop in each hole a handful of small pieces, or one or two large pieces. Holes enough for one large tree can be made in one minute the bones introduced in little more than minute, and one stroke with a hoe will fill each hole. Ashes are best applied on the surface.
 National Irrigation Survey
 The recent news from Washington that several parties from the United States Geological Survey. comprising in all about 100 men, will begin early in April to work on the California-Ns- vada border is of vast importance to the two states mentioned, and of al most equal interest to the whole coun try. It is the inauguration of a la tional system of irrigation, which will not end with this generation, though in thirty years the whole face oe tEe western half of the country can te 
 According to the dispatch this jn,tia- tive work is expected to involve 'hC ultimate expenditure of about $ll 000,- 900, distributed over period C. ten years, and of course there will be an immense amount of labor required. IL is stated that it is propose 10 build large reservoirs on the California side of the border line, the water to serve in reclamation of fertile lands on both sides of the mountains. The first work done will be mainly along the Truckee, Carson and Kalker rivers. They will measure the volume of the streams, the capacity of the reservoirs and esti- mate the cost of construction. They will also ascertain in what valleys the water can be used to the best advan- tage.-Los Angeles Herald.
 Areas of Profitable Cultivation
 What is in some respects the most work of the Division of Pomology, namely, the accurate map