The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-05-26
YEAR BOOK TO BE ISSUED.
Annual Official Publication Soon Will
Be Published.

| Washington. ID. C.-The annual Of
fetal publication Of the department
OF agriculture known as the Year
Book viii be printed about June IS.
Mr.. James w. Abbott, special agent
for the Rocky Mountain & Pacific
| coast division, in special report
makes review of the use OF mineral
! OH IN road Improvement which he
says mas been a great success in Cali
fornia. He says:
"The growth Of oil in popular favor
in southern California has been
steady a2d most rapid. Many OF
those who have had most experience
WITH lt.haye come to regard its use
IL dry region as the most impor-
tant discovery ever made in road
MAKING. Quite considerable num-
Der Of people have said to the writer:
We could not go back to the old
conditions; if We had to give up our
ciled roads w would move away"
Nj. Abbott thinks that oil can be |
used to advantage at any place in |
the CnItel States where the roads be-
come very dry and dusty and where
water can be kept cut Of their found
atoms III the winter so that they will
'emain firm and not give wav be-
reach the oiled surface in the spring
ne reliance must, he, said, be upon
IN OIL with an asphalt base.
Forest Planting.
Mr.. William Hall discusses the I
racticability Of forest planting in the
nited States. He says: Forest
I2nting is not practicable in those !,
egIons which are cut away. Broadly !
peakIng, this includes in the south
ne hardwood region Of the southern :,
,ppalachians and the pine belt from !
lrgInla to Texas. In the northeast Y
. lHc!udes the spruce forests in New =
o:h' Vermont. New Hampshire and y
ialne; 1t includes also sections else :,
mere, as IN the Allegheny noun y
ans. IN the west it includes the
eaVIly timbered portions Of CaIifor !
Ia. oregon and Washington. and :,
mailer sections elsewhere. :,
In olher parts of the United States =
ian those named above there are ~
)hie other sections in which the SUP y
y or timber is wanting or becOmI1g :"
sufhcient TO meet the demand a9d -
when national reproduction is not -,
ltficlent to insure a second CROP" y
". II. Beale, OF the office Of ey3ari- ,,
eAt stations, has an article in which III
says: Agricultural experiment
atoms are now in operation in ey- IN
y state and territory of the United >!
ates. Including Alaska, Hawaii and ~
11to Rico, and steps are being taken -,
lder government auspices to esrah-
n agencies for agricultural investi- -
ton IN the Philippine islands va
i1re are nearly sixty stations, en- fr
)ylng nearly 1000 trained scienti- 49,
and practical men in their work a. a.
Inc annual income Of these STA a.
MS III 1907 was $1,32SS47 of which w
III S'ZV"oV came from the federal
Vernment and $60S,S47 from state s.
preparations and other sources !;
lIng the fourteen years of their px &
enIe as national enterprise there =
been expended in their mainta- 6
ace about $4,000 900 of which $40
',ooo came from the national treas y
and about S4,000000 from state &
lrces. 4
irrigated Lands. =
4 an article on irrigation Edward &
beals, of the weather bureau saws =
t there are more than 1000 000 :
es OF irrigated land in the United 9
ties. The total cost of the irriga-
systems of the United States is T.
'zs9'Sol and the value of the irri- =
ca crops for the single wear of =
was sS4,433.433 or 80 per cent 4
ater than the cost of the plants
numbers OF irrigators was 1922 =
"hlcn gives nearly seventy-one z
as 10 the farm.