THE IRRIGATION AGE, Published by G. E. GIRLING. 



(MONTHLY, ILLUSTRATED.); 



THE IRRIGATION AGE is a Journal of Western America, tecognized throughout the 

 World as the exponent of Irrigation and its kindred industries. It is the pioneer journal of 

 its kind in the world and has no rival in half a continent. It advocates the mineral develop- 

 ment and the industrial growth of the West, 



CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1897. 



The Progress of Western America. 



President Cleveland's Forrest Reservation. 41* 



A Survey Required 41 



Irrigation Securities , 42 



Trans-Mississippi Exposition Assured 42 



Irrigation Opportunity 42 



Some Suggestions 43 



Stimulate Home Consumption 43 



Important Decision 44 



The Problem of the Grazing Lands 43 



Encourage Factories Westward 44 



Immigration and Industrial Associations 44 



Beet Sugar Industry 44 



The Flood Waters of the Large Rivers , 45 



Why Court Destruction? 45 



Consideration for the Producer 45 



Mistaken Policy 46 



Traveling Dairy 46 



Interesting Contributed Articles. 



Water Development by Tunnelling, By James T. Taylor 47 



The Art of Irrigation, By T. S. Van Dyke 40 



Features for Farmers and Fruit Growers. 



The Threatened European Boycott 52 



Washington for Sugar Beets 52 



Sugar versus Wheat 52 



Two Methods of Tree Planting 53 



Peach Growers Ten Commandments 54 



Our Export Trade 54 



A Remedy for Burdocks 54 



A Blessing in Disguise 55 



Fertilizer 55 



Western Wealth 55 



Alfalfa . .... 55 



Farm and Farm Rentals in the United States 55 



No Danger from Irrigation. 55 



Wheat Consumption 56 



The Best Fertilizer 56 



An Ohio Beet Sugar Factory 56 



Pulse of the Irrigation Industry. 



John Gerald Griffin 57 



Forrest Preservation 58 



Hershey, Neb 58 



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