THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XIII. 



CHICAGO, JULY, 1899. 



NO. 10, 



THE PROGRESS OF WESTERN SMERIGfi. 



We are indebted to the New 

 Prominent York Juurnnlifit for the picture 



\ve give this month of our well 

 known contributor. Lodian Lodian, and 

 the biographical sketch which accom- 

 panies it. is also taken from that paper. 

 \Ve are very grateful for the courtesy. 

 We think that readers of the AGE will be 

 interested in learning more of the prime 

 movers in irrigation affairs and we shall 

 endeavor to give from month to month 

 portraits and sketches of those active in 

 its intere> - 



X.'.xt month we hope to give portrait 

 and sketch of one who may be termed the 

 pioneer irrigationist of humid America 

 Dr. Clarke Gapen. of Madison, Wis. Dr. 

 Gapen made such extensive irrigation 

 experiments on the farm of the Kankakee 

 insane asylum, during the time that he 

 had charge of that institution, that he 

 became famous as an authority on that 

 subject. And there are many others 

 whose portraits we hope to see in our 

 pages later on. 



We have alwavs had a kindly 

 All the 

 Kay From feeling for the "Lone btar 



Texas. ~tate and this feeling was 



augmented when we received a crate of 

 delicious Muscat grapes from Laredo, 

 Texas. Mr. T. C. Xye. whose bright 

 letters now and then have made him 

 familiar to our readers, very kindly 

 remembered us when his fruit was ripe 

 and in consequence we had the'pleasure of 

 eating grapes at this season of the year. 



Mr. Nye has demonstrated what profit 

 there is in fruit and vegetable farming 



and is a lesson to farmers to engage in 

 this character of agriculture. His onions 

 are a source of pride and profit, but he can 

 best describe them, so we will say no 

 more. Later we hope to be able to secure 

 fiom Mr. Xye photographs of his place. 

 At present we can thank him heartily for 

 his kindness. 

 "The Through the various medical 



White congresses and associations 



Plague." 



and the newspaper reports of 



their proceedings, the public is gaining a 

 great deal of information concerning 

 tuberculosis or what was formerly called 

 consumption. Medical congresses were 

 held recently in Berlin. Germany, in 

 England and in this country at which 

 some of the most eminent physicians dis- 

 cussed, this disease which they claim is 

 the most deadly scourge of this generation 

 and suggested measures for checking 

 the "white plague. v It is only recently 

 that the true cause and nature of this 

 malady has been discovered by medical 

 men and they are now anxious to so 

 diffuse their knowledge among the com- 

 mon people as to enable them to use 

 sanitary measures which will check the 

 disease. It is caused, so it is claimed by a 

 germ or bacillus, which may be acquired 

 in any number of ways. so many in fact 

 that kissing, eating, sleeping, and in short 

 any mingling with your fellows is fraught 

 with danger. It is regarded as con- 

 tageous. inasmuch as by being with tube rcu- 

 lous patients you run the risk of inhaling 

 the germs. Eminent authorities deny, 

 however, that it is heriditary. The fact 



