THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXI 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1905. 



No. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 



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 GEO. W. WAGNER, Mgr. M. C. JACKSON, Editor, Western Dept. 



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It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is the 

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 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 20 years 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



Here is a good one from the standpoint of George, 

 taken from Maxwell's Talisman, September, 1905 : 



"Some faint echoes which have reached 



Humorous, the national capital of the recent National 



Irrigation Congress held at Portland, 



Ore., would seem to indicate that the usefulness of that 



body has to a considerable extent departed." 



It will be noted that the gentleman who poses as 

 the head of the National Irrigation Association believes 

 that the usefulness of the National Irrigation Congress 

 ended when it passed unanimously a resolution repudiat- 

 ing that association. 



The lines quoted from the Talisman are humorous 

 in the extreme, when one considers the source and the 

 condition that caused them to be penned. Poor George ! 

 How have the mighty fallen? 



After innumerable delays caused by a de- 

 Primer of sire to bring the work as nearly up to date 

 Irrigation. as possible, the Primer of Irrigation is off 



the press and is now being shipped in 

 large numbers to those whose orders have been on our 

 books for the past year or more. We wish to apologize 

 particularly to those who have placed their order with 

 us for a copy of the Primer of Irrigation, for the long 

 delay in its appearance. 



Judging from the number of orders received for 

 this work it will have a large sale. We are now negoti- 

 ating with one house to handle 5,000 copies of the work, 

 which will give it wide distribution and extensive adver- 

 tising. The price of the Primer of Irrigation, cloth 

 bound, is $2.00. The price where ordered in connec- 



tion with a subscription to THE IRRIGATION AGE is 

 $1.50; in other words, we quote a combination price of 

 $2.50 for THE IRRIGATION AGE one year and the Primer 

 of Irrigation, postpaid. Those who have not ordered a 

 copy should write us at once and secure one of the first 

 edition, which will soon be exhausted. 



This, the November issue of THE IRRIGA- 

 Twenty-ohe TION AGE, starts in Number One, Volume 

 Years Old. Twenty-one, of this publication, which 



means that it has been published for over 

 twenty years. It may not be out of place to state here 

 that THE IRRIGATION AGE is the pioneer publication of 

 its class in the world and is older by over eighteen years 

 than any other "publication issued today in the interest 

 of irrigation or kindred lines. During the past five 

 years the publishers of this journal have purchased the 

 following named papers, all of which have been merged 

 with THE IRRIGATION AGE, thereby very much increas- 

 ing and extending its circulation : 



Modern Irrigation, Denver; The Irrigation Era, 

 Denver; Arid America, Denver; The Drainage Journal, 

 Indianapolis; Mid-West, Denver; The Farm Herald, 

 Denver. 



It will be noted from the foregoing list that THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE has purchased at different times all of 

 the irrigation journals published in Denver or west of 

 Chicago prior to .1902, hence any other publication 

 claiming to have been in existence for a longer period 

 than two years misrepresent facts and ought to be looked 

 upon with suspicion by the advertising public. THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE has always been considered authority 



