. Eastern fruit . ored literature sent out by Western rail roads and land companies w opening the flood gates that let into the irritjalion dilehes the life-giving streams of water, and leaving to nature tlie growth and ripening of monster crops of fruits, cereails, alfalfa or other prod- ucts of the fields. That this rosy picture is by \,i) means justified by the facts is shown in a paper prepared l)y Director Newell, of the Government's reclama- tion service, who, speaking of the dis- couraging exi)ericnces of many settlers, says: "Success must be preceded by subdu- ii!,' the soil, gett
. Eastern fruit . ored literature sent out by Western rail roads and land companies w opening the flood gates that let into the irritjalion dilehes the life-giving streams of water, and leaving to nature tlie growth and ripening of monster crops of fruits, cereails, alfalfa or other prod- ucts of the fields. That this rosy picture is by \,i) means justified by the facts is shown in a paper prepared l)y Director Newell, of the Government's reclama- tion service, who, speaking of the dis- couraging exi)ericnces of many settlers, says: "Success must be preceded by subdu- ii!,' the soil, getting it into good con suleiutiil example of what can be ob- tained through co-operation; and the se- QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED. rrct of it^ siicress lies for i Lrre'it deal '^^ ^â ^'"^' ""Poitant feature of this de- cret ol US success lies, lor a great utai p;j,,tânnt will be tiie answers by Dr. H. A. llieriiii, that it keeps distinctly out of .Surlaee, Slate Zoologist of Pennsylvania, ., , , . , , ,, ..on Pest Suei-uEssioN.âEd.] politus 1 he League induced the rail-, road, in leKij, to reduce the freight rate, ' which saved nearly a million every year Petroleum.âW. T. Shaw, Atlantic 1 he change in the refrigeration tariffs City: In the oil regions of Pennsyl- of ihe transportation companies, which vania, where I have a fine young apple became effective Julv 5, Kjoy, was another '^"â ^â I'-ird. } '''" advised to use crude oil ,.', around the trunks of the trees to kill im])ortant accomplishment. The activity of the League had for re- the insects. What do you think of it? Answer. I do not recall any defi- sults that the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, of nite case of the use of crude August 15, lyoy, was not in conflict with : petroleum around the trunks of trees the mterest of the citrus trade in this ' ''^ â¢Â»" insecticide. I should not be c luiitry, but the railroads attempted to yet a part of the duty granted by Con- gress by increasing their
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