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THE IEBIGATION AGE. 



Colo., produced on a little truck patch, containing lets 

 than one-half acre, over $129 worth of miscellaneous 

 garden vegetables by irrigation from a wind mill plant, 

 the storage reservoir of which did not cost to exceed 

 $23." Mr. Wolfenbarger says farther : 



"Onr people need to learn that on thousands of 

 farms there are opportunities to construct and put into 

 operation small irrigation plants, which would increase 

 the value of farm products from $100 to $300 per acre 

 on each farm when such a plant is established." 



What Mr. Wolfenbarger says of Nebraska and the 

 West is equally true of the Central and Eastern States. 

 and the time is not far distant when manufacturers of 

 wind mills, gasoline engines and other pumping outfits 

 will begin a campaign of education along these lines 

 cast of the Missouri River. 



ject. A good likeness of Mr. Wolfenbarger is shown 

 in this issue. 



President 

 Wolfenbargcr. 



A. G. Wolfenbarger, of Lincoln, Neb., 

 recently unanimously elected presi- 

 dent of the Nebraska Irrigation As- 

 sociation, is one of the best known 

 irrigation attorneys in the central West. He is a 

 farmer's son, and for the past twenty-five years has 

 been engaged in journalistic and social reform, and for 

 the past twelve years has been actively engaged in the 

 practice of his profession in the capital of Nebraska. 



MR. A. G. WOLFE iBARGER. 

 Lincoln, Neb. 



He has held commissions from four governors of his 

 State as an accredited representative of Nebraska in 

 the various national irrigation congresses. He has de- 

 voted much time to the study of irrigation law and his- 

 tory, and in all positions he has held in connection with 

 the irrigation movement he has never received a dollar 

 of salary and his expenses have be'en met from his per- 

 sonal funds. He published the Nebraska Irrigation 

 Annual in 1896 and 1897, and during his incumbency 

 as an officer of the Irrigation Association has printed 

 and circulated over three tons of literature on this sub- 



Secretary of 

 Agriculture. 



Through the courtesy of the Division 

 of Publications, II. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, we are presenting in this 

 issue a very good likeness of Secretary 

 of Agriculture James Wilson, who was born in Ayrshire, 

 Scotland, August 1C, 1835. Secretary Wilson is a 

 nephew of Rev. Dr. J. McCosh, ex-president of Prince- 

 ton College. In 1852 his parents emigrated to the 

 United States, settling at Norwich, Conn., whence, in 

 1885, he removed to Traer, Tama County, Iowa. He 

 attended the public schools and finished his education 

 at Iowa College. As early as 1861 Mr. Wilson took 

 up farming as an occupation, and in the same year was 

 elected to the State Assembly, of whose lower house he 

 became speaker. In 1872 he was electd to the Forty- 

 third Congress (1873-75), also to the Forty-fourth 

 (1875-77), and to the Forty-eighth (1883-85). In the 

 interim between the Forty-fourth and Forty-eighth he 

 served as a member of the railway commission; in 1870- 

 71 he was a regent of the State University, and in 1890- 

 97 was director of the agricultural experiment association 

 and professor of agriculture at the Iowa Agricultural 

 College at Ames. He was confirmed Secretary of Agri- 

 culture in President McKinley's cabinet, March 5, 1897, 

 and was retained in office when the President began his 

 second term. Secretary'Wilson is recognized as one of 

 the most conscientious workers in the cabinet and has 

 accomplished great good for the farmers of America 

 since being placed in this high office. 



FIGHT ON. 



If things seem a little blue, 



Keep on fighting. 

 Stay it out and see it through, 



Keep on fighting. 

 Do not give up in despair, 

 There will come a change somewhere, 

 Skies to-morrow will be fair. 



Keep on fighting. 



Is the struggle hard and long? 



Keep on fighting. 

 Face the music and be strong, 



Keep on fighting. 



Show you're game and proud of it, 

 That you're not the sort to quit, 

 That you have old-fashioned grit. 



Keep on fighting. 



But if you should win or no, 



Keep on fighting. 

 If you lose, then be it so, 



Keep on fighting. 

 You had better bite the dust 

 For the cause you know is just 

 And eternally go down 

 Than with wrong to win renown. 



Keep on fighting. 



