THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



consumptive, if ejected on the sidewalk, is 

 reduced to dust when it dries and is then 

 distributed through the air in the form of 

 germs. If they find lodgment in the 

 lungs of a human being whose physical 

 condition allows them to revive and grow, 

 the disease gets a foothold and can be 

 conveyed from one to another. " 



There has been more big money made by 

 the farming interest of the country the 

 past twenty years in either taking water to 



lands where most needed through irriga- 

 tion or removing it therefrom by canals, 

 ditches, tiling or levees than in any other 

 one enterprise. 



Every farmer in the middle west, the 

 south, the north west, the south west and 

 west should subscribe for the Chicago Ir- 

 rigation Age and follow its good advise. If 

 they will do so. in the near future they will 

 be money loaners instead of borrowers. 



