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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



it can readily be seen that a much greater profit may be 

 obtained where the landowner has an artesian well, 

 where lifting of water to the surface is not neces- 

 sary. 



Those interested in the this subject will secure 

 further information by addressing Prof. J. J. Vernon, 

 New Mexico College of Agriculture, Mesilla Park, 

 N.M. 



Irrigation and Diversified Farming are 

 Twentieth good twentieth century watchwords. 

 Century They stand for progress. The thousands 



Watchwords, of farmers who are seeking new homes 



and the thousands more who remain in 

 the older settled States should keep these watchwords 

 in mind and give them application in their agricultu- 

 ral labors. They should also be fostered by capital- 

 ists and ' manufacturers everywhere. 



The continued prosperity of this country depends 

 in no small degree on making the small farms and the 

 old farms more profitable and attractive. Farm life 

 can only become interesting to young men as the labor 

 is lightened and the profits increased. Hence the need 

 of diversification and a greater degree of certainty in 

 crop production. Without irrigation there is sure to 

 be disappointment. 



Men who are choosing new locations ought, in 

 justice to themselves, to at least consider those locali- 

 ties where irrigation has been adopted on a liberal and 

 intelligent scale. Furthermore, capitalists ought to be 

 more liberal and enterprising in aiding irrigation proj- 

 ects than almost any other line of human endeavor. 

 Such investments are reasonably safe and will have a 

 far-reaching effect on the nation's welfare and prog- 

 ress. If the agricultural class is to keep pace with 

 the world's progress it must adopt modern ideas and 

 discard many of the old methods of farming. The one- 

 crop plan has had its day. Mixed farming is the new 

 order, and irrigation is the first great essential next to 

 the possession of the land. 



The expansion idea of the National Gov- 

 Unoccupied ernment is heartily approved by a ma- 

 Land in jority of our patriotic citizens. It is 

 America. the statesmanship of today applied to 



what will be urgent necessity in the fu- 

 ture. Such statesmanship is of the bro'adest and sound- 

 est character. This nation's greatness is always in- 

 creasing. It is always comparative. While THE IRRI- 

 GATION AGE is an earnest advocate of the policy of na- 

 tional expansion, as it is expressed politically, it seems 

 timely to call the attention of capitalists, as well as 

 homeseekers, to the fact that there are still vast areas 

 of unoccupied land in America. 



In the clamor for expansion beyond the seas we 

 are too apt to overlook some of the great opportuni- 



ties at our very doors. Nearly every section of this 

 continent extends flattering invitations to settlers. 

 This is as true of the Northern as of the Southern 

 States. 



There is a quiet but continual sale of farming 

 lands in the northern part of Wisconsin. The transfers 

 of these lands have been enormous in the aggregate 

 during the last two years. The buyers are mostly 

 farmers who have been renters in the older States. In 

 most cases they are men of ripe experience and possess 

 sufficient capital to enable them to start nicely in their 

 new locations. Their good character, capital and skill 

 will work miracles in northern Wisconsin, just .as 

 these essentials have reclaimed the Western prairies 

 within a dozen or twenty years. 



The population of northern Wisconsin is .being 

 augmented about as fast as that of Minnesota, the Da- 

 kdtas, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming 

 and Utah. In a few years more all of these localities 

 will resemble the older and wealthier States. Perhaps 

 the new South and Oklahoma and Texas are gaining 

 faster than any Northern S'tates, and, of course, offer 

 opportunities for investment and industry which are 

 unsurpassed. 



The most cursory view will convince the inter- 

 ested observer that he does not have to leave the United 

 States in order to obtain a cheap farm or secure any of 

 the advantages which are usually found in a new terri- 

 tory. There are still millions of acres of choice land, 

 both north and south, which may be obtained at a 

 price so low that the poorest citizen is able to become 

 the owner of his home and the tiller of his own farm. 



These fields are equally inviting to capitalists. No 

 class of security is safer for investors than agricultural 

 lands. The small towns which develop in a new coun- 

 try also offer innumerable good opportunities for capi- 

 talists, merchants and mechanics. The men first on the 

 ground reap the most substantial harvests, provided 

 they have the patience and good sense to stick, despite 

 the early discouragements which are common to the 

 frontier. 



LEADING IRRIGATION JOURNAL. 



A recent issue of White's Class Advertising has the 

 following to say concerning this journal: 



THE IRRIGATION AGE, now nearing its twenty-first 

 birthday, lays claim to being the pioneer journal of its 

 kind in the world and the leading representative of the 

 irrigation and drainage industries, Western resources, 

 agricultural, mineral and industrial development. Its 

 circulation is greater than the combined circulation of 

 all other irrigation journals. Within the past two years 

 Modern Irrigation, The Irrigation Era, Arid America. 

 all formerly published at Denver, The Drainage Jour- 

 nal of Indianapolis. Mid-West of Denver, and the Farm 

 Herald of Denver, have been merged with THE IRRIGA- 

 TION AGE, thereby very materially strengthening it in 

 every wav. 



