THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



AN ILLUSTRATED HONTHLY. 



Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., as second-class matter. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE is a Journal of Western America, recognized 

 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 development and the industrial growth of the West. 



CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1901. 



The Progress of Western America. 



Reclaiming the Arid Lands. 77 



Irrigating the Garden 77 



National Irrigation 78 



Interesting Contributed Articles. 



Irrigation in India and America 79 ( \, 



Irrigation for the West 83 



Interest in forest Preservation ;. 88 



Construction of Storage Reservoir 91 



Diversified Farm. 



A New Cereal 93 



Money in Barley 94 



Alfalfa in New York 95 



i Bureau of Forestry 96 



One Thousand Kinds of Grass in America 98 



! Coast's Great Raisin Yield 98 



Here is a New World to Conquer 99 



Odds and Ends. 



Since we got the Mortgage Paid ........................................ 100 



A Proud Father ........................... ............................... 100 



A Monument to Jennie Wade.. . 100 



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