Arizona republican., 1902-10-23
REPORTS ON IRRIGATION
Results of Investigations by State Ex-
 pertinent Stations.

The office of experiment states, Unit ed States department of agriculture, has issued the following publications on Irrigation during the past year:
 Report on Irrigation investigations in California, under the supervision of ElWo5d Mead. assisted by William F. Smythe, Marsden Manson, J. N. Will son, Charles D. Marx, Frank Soule, C.
 F.. Grunsky. Edward NJ. R0ggs and James D. Schuyler (Bulletin No. 1OO
 pp. All, pls. 29, figs. 16), which gives an account of investigations conducted In California during 1900 by this office, cooperating with the California Wat CT and Forest association, which con sisted of observations by irrigation ex- perts Cl the existing legal, engineering and agricultural conditions along nine typical streams used for irrigation in
 the state.
 Report Of Irrigation Investigations
 for 1900 Bulletin No. 104. pp. 334, pls z5, figs. 2O. This report covers the second year of the measurements of duty water. The reports of the field agents contain also a large amount of information on laws and customs, agricultural methods. crop returns. and other subjects related to irrigation 4 progress report on the quantities of salt carried by a number of southern rivers is also contained in this volume This report has been reprinted in sep arates.
 Irrigation in the United States. testi- in9ny Of Elwood Mead irrigation ex- pert. be:Ore the United States Indus tfial commission (Bvlletia No. iJ5. pp. A., pis. l2. fig. D. The statement made before the industrial commission deals chiefly with the legal status of irri- gation, touching Ca state control na-
 tiCnal aiI to irrigation and the disposal Of the public grazing lands. The neces-
 sity and possibility for storage are
 also discussed.
 Irrigation Practice Among Fruit
 Growers on the Pacific Coast, by F. Fl Wickson Bulletin No. lOS. pp. 54. pls 10, figs. .. This bulletin gives the re- suits Of q special investigation into
 the conditions, extent and methods of irrigation as practiced among fruit growers on thc Pacific coast.
 Irrigation in Field and Garden. by E. j. Wickson Farmers Bulletin No. I3S. rp 70, figs 1S). discusses methods of irrigation on a small scale
 How to Build small Irrigation bitches. by C. T. Johnston and J. D. Stann&rd CFarmers' Bulletin Nc. 15S. pp. 2S, figs. 9. This is a reprint of an article in the Yearbook of the depart meat Of agriculture for 1900. entitled Practical Irrigation, giving methods or laying out and building small irrigat- ! ing ditches, using only such imple- mcnts as are ;Jund on most farms. or can easily be made by the farmer. Some Typical Reservoirs Of the Rocky mountain states, by Eiwood Mead CYearboCk of the department of agriculture for 1901, pp 415-43O. pls. S). | This article describes some of the res ervoirs of Colorado and Utah. paying especial attention to the cost 5f con struction and returns from the use or 1 the stored water
 The publication prepared for the printer during the year include the | following.
 Irrigation of Rice in the United States. by Frank Bond and George II. i keeney Bulletin No. 113. pp. 77. pls. | 2S, figs. 10). Tn this bulletin MT. Bond describes the rice industry of Louis jana and Texas. and gives measure ments of the quantities of water used , in irrigating rice. The laws relating
 to irrigation of the two states dealt with are also discussed. Mr Keeney's report covers North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia, and is almost wholly descriptive.
 Irrigation from Big Thompson river.
 in Colorado, by John F.. Field Bulleti1
 No. 1lS, pp. 75, pls. ,, fig. D. This is a study of the water laws of Colorado as Illustrated by the irrigation from Big Thompson river Mir. Field discusses more particularly the water loaninC"
 law, a recent enactment which has a tendency to unsettle all existing
 rights to Colorado streams.
 Report of Irrigation IrVestiCations
 for lSCl C8ulletin No. 119. pp. pIs. 64.
 figs. 12). This is the third Of the an
 ruaI reports Of the irrigation investi-
 SatioEs of this office. It deals chiefly | with the duty of water, but contains also reports from four stations in the
 humid states, where irrigation is not ! a necessity, but means Of increasing
 the return from farm lands: a report cn the undergI ound water supply of the san Bernardino valley, Cal, and the second progress report on silt meas
 urementsA
 The manuscript for the following publications is in hand: Irrigation
 Water Contracts, by J. s. Greene; Re
 rort on Irrigation in Egypt. by C. T. Johnston; Irrigation investigations in