THE IRRIGATION AGE, Illustrated, Edited by Wm. E. Smythe. 



THE IRRIGA TION AGEis a Journal of Western America, recognized throughout the World 

 as the exponent of irrigation and its kindred industries. It is the pioneer journal in its field and 

 has no rival in half a continent. 



L. R. BRITTON, Business Manager. 



CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1895. 



PROGRESS OF WESTERN AMERICA. 



The Country Begins to Listen 69 Army or Civilian Control?. 73 



God Bless Boston 69 Pecos Valley Railroad Extension 73 



The Boston Conference 69 Arizona's New Railroad 73 



The Lines of Thought Presented 70 Windmill Irrigation 75 



An Idea from Gen. Booth 71 Electric Farming 75 



Wyoming's Action on the Carey Law 72 An Electric Plow 75 



Chicago Movements 72 Gauging the Streams 75 



Fighting for the Forests 72 Allied Industries 75 



INTERESTING CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES. 



The New Plymouth. The Projected Colony a Type of the New Life of Arid America. 



By William E. Smythe 76 



Colonial Clubs for Arid America 82 



Irrigation Principles. Fifth Article. Control Enterprise. By Wm. Ham. Hall 83 



Official Regulations Concerning the Selection of Desert lands fcy Certain States . 8^6 



The Irrigation Engineers' Annual 87 



An Impending K evolution. By W. C. Fitzsimmons 88 



TALKS WITH PRACTICAL FARMERS AND FRUIT GROWERS. 



The Future of Farming Under Irrigation. By F. C. Barker 91 



Some Practical Pointeis. By J. C. Fortener 92 



An Overload of Debt 92 Cost of Alfalfa Hay 93 



Keeping Cabbage from Bursting 92 It Pays to Feed Wheat 93 



Need of Full Information 92 A Nebraska Protest 94 



A Texas Example 93 New Methods of Handling Fruit 94 



Hogs on Alfalfa 93 Fruit Selection 94 



Farmer's Bulletin 93 Fruit Exchanges 94 



A Scourge of Wild Horses 93 Orchard Profits 94 



Eradicate the Russian Pest 93 Straw a Substitute for Hay 94 



What Boys Should be Taught 93 The European Wine Industry 94 



The Dairy Cow Sized Up 93 Pruning the Peach Tree 94 



The Question Box 95 



Maxims for the Irrigated Farm 96 



Pulse of the Irrigation Industry with News Notes from All Over the Field 98 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Geo. Kinkel, Jr 71 A Rose Bush 80 



A Southern California Orchard 74 Four-year Old Apple Trees 80 



Sage Brush in Payette Valley 77 Payette River 81 



Map of Payette Valley 77 Prune Trees 81 



Diagram of Home Acres 78 San Francisco Mountains 82 



A Branch of Prunes 78 Harvest Scene on a Fruit Farm in Idaho 89 



Scene in a Hop Yard 79 



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