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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE SUPER VOLUNTEERS. 

 We've been the Roman army and we've 



been the Paris mob, 

 We've marched with Dave Belasco's 



boys in blue; 

 We've fought in "Shenandoah" and we've 



often had the job 



Of assisting in the "Taming of the 

 Shrew." 



We're battle-battered veterans of every 



blessed age, 

 We can stand before a stage director's 



"damn;" 

 But we've made our last appearance and 



we're going to engage 

 For a season on the road with Uncle Sam. 



We've rushed across from R. toL., pursu- 

 ing empty air, 

 We've done some noble slaughter in the 



wings; 

 We've fired a thousand volleys on a foe 



that wasn't there, 



And it seems that we are fit for better 

 things. 



We want to feel the fever of a realistic 



fight, 

 And we want to storm a fort that ain't 



a sham; 

 We're sick of being soldiers at half a 



plunk per night, 



So we're going on the road with Uncle 

 Sam. 



And it isn't for the glory, and it isn't for 



the pay, 



For none of us expect to be a star 

 But it's just the human longing for the 



madness of the fray, 

 It's the longing to be really what we are. 

 So we quit the Roman army, and we've 

 laid the props aside, 



And the stage door shuts behind us with 



a slam, 

 And we ain't afraid of dying for we've 



very often died, 



And we'll gladly die again for Uncle Sam. 

 Dramatic Mirror. 



WHAT KERN COUNTY CAN DO. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. E. E, 

 Houghton, of San Francisco, Cal. , we are 

 enabled to present the illustrations of 

 wheat and barley fields appearing in this 

 issue. In the letter accompanying the 

 photographs Mr. Houghton says : 



''In your publication for the month of 

 June, I find a picture of a wheat field on 

 Sunset Colony Lands, produced with a 

 view of showing what can be done in the 

 way of raising grain crops by means of ar- 

 tificial irrigation. As I recently had some 

 pictures taken of some grain fields on a 

 section of land which I have in Kern Co., 

 Cal. , which I think will compare with the 

 field which is presented in your June num- 

 ber, and as I know you are interested in 

 such matters, I send you two photographs ; 

 one of a wheat field on the Alameda farm, 

 and the other of a barley field on the 

 Berkshire farm, Kern County . " 



June 21 was Illinois day at the Trans- 

 Mississippi Exposition, and Omaha had 

 one of the largest crowds on record that 

 day. 



We are in receipt of a neat catalogue, 

 gotten out by the Witte Iron Works Co. , 

 of Kansas City, dealers in gas and gaso- 

 line engines. The cover is especially 

 handsome, being of heavy white enameled 

 paper, with the United States and Cuban 

 flags in colors. 



