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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



have struck a flow of water which enables 

 them to pump 100 miners' inches day and 

 night into the tunnel. In the bed of the 

 same river, the San Gabriel, a few miles 

 below, the Killian well is yielding 350 

 inches constantly. The value of water in 

 that locality is so high that it justifies large 

 expenditures to find it and to carry it 

 without waste after it is found. 



Past Due It is said that manufacturers, 

 Paper, jobbers and dealers in agricul- 

 tural implements hold as much as $60,- 

 000,000 worth of past due notes from 

 farmers who are unable to pay. The farm- 

 ers have been put in this condition finan- 

 cially by the steadily falling prices of their 

 products during the past few years and it 

 is difficult to see where relief is to come 

 from, and how this vast sum can be finally 

 paid, if similar conditions are to prevail 

 for all time. It is not only the holder of 

 the paper who is walking the floor in anx- 

 iety and distress, for his business honor is 

 not generally more dear to him than to the 

 farmer, who only delays payment through 

 sheer inability. And while the half of the 

 consuming population of the country is so 

 much involved and therefore unable to buy 

 only absolute necessities, it is not reason- 

 able to suppose the country can have a re- 

 vival of prosperity. It has set the farmers 

 thinking and their thoughts are likely to 

 have expression in their votes at the com- 

 ing presidential election. 



The Field It is encouraging to note the 

 Widening, experimenting that is in prog- 

 ress all over the country, even in what is 

 known as the rainfall area, to test the prac- 

 tical value of irrigation. The New Hamp- 

 shire station has been trying it on the farm 

 and garden crops, and with very excellent 

 results. It is used there as supplement- 

 ary, and to tide over the season of drouth. 

 To have a sufficient water supply available 

 for transplanting and for forcing special 

 crops in the garden is a great advantage 

 at any time. To have it ready for use, if 

 it be needed for only a week or two, to 

 prevent a crop suffering from drouth, 

 whether in the garden or field, will justify 

 a considerable expenditure. 



meetings in various parts of the state, so 

 as to bring out the opinions of farmers in 

 regard to matters for their interest, which 

 the university seeks to promote. Fifty 

 meetings are to be held as soon as practi- 

 cable. It cannot fail to awaken an active 

 interest on the part of the whole people in 

 the work of a university which has been 

 admirably managed for years, and which 

 has ever accomplished effective work in be- 

 half of all the material interests of the 

 state. It is a practical blending of theory 

 and practice, a co-operation between the 

 educated thinker and the skilled farmer, a 

 direct alliance between field and labora- 

 tory. 



For Small The Implement Age calls 

 Remittances, attention, to a business 

 necessity which everyone having to make 

 or receive small remittances will imme- 

 diately recognize. Some kind of paper 

 money why shall it not be silver certifi- 

 cates ? to represent the fractional coins as 

 well as the full dollars ? that can be used 

 for the remittance of small sums, without 

 the trouble and expense of securing money 

 orders and of collecting them, would be a 

 very great convenience. The risk involved 

 in the use of them is hardly worth consid- 

 ering as an actual fact, surely they are 

 safer than the remittance of coins can be, 

 and for a dollar or two the trouble in get- 

 ting a duplicate money order or in tracing 

 a lost one, is worth more than the amount 

 involved. 



A Wise The board of regents of the 

 Decision. State University of California 

 have decided to arrange for the holding of 



DR. W. L. WOODRUFF, 

 of Phoenix, Arizona. 



