THE IREIGATION AGE. 



153 



MAN WITH THE SHOVEL. 



Versus the Man with the Book- How Science Can Be Applied 

 Successfully. 



By B. P. F. in Ranchman's Reminder. 



The man with the shovel (with apologies to 

 Markham) is very properly the man who wades about 

 in the irrigated field directing the playful irrigating 

 stream here and there, while at the same time provid- 

 ing for the ubiquitous mosquito a feast nicely par- 

 boiled by the glaring sun of Western midsummer. This 

 man, like anyone engaged in the acutal practice of a 

 pursuit, is often inclined, and sometimes wisely, to 

 view with mingled amusement and contempt the 

 scientific abstractions and vaporings of the student. 

 He feels confident that this man of learning would find 

 but little application for his so-called science in actual 

 work, and would feel his boasted enthusiasm for the 

 dignity and nobility of the profession slowly running 

 out of the holes in his leaky boots when actually face 

 to face with the dreary proposition of spreading a 

 "two-inch stream" over a half section of "knolly" land. 

 Yet, however true this may be, there really is a science 

 as well as an art of irrigation. 



To irrigate is not merely to divert water from the 

 stream, convey it by ditch to the land to be watered 

 and there turn it loose. From the legal act of appro- 

 priation to the physical act of watering the land, legal 

 and technical knowledge, combined with good common 

 sense, is constantly necessary. In order to acquire a 

 right to water, a man should be conversant with the 

 legal requirements with which he must comply before 

 the right will be granted him. In the construction of 

 his ditch he should know something about the capaci- 

 ties of ditches of different sizes and grades, in order 

 that the costly mistake will not be made of building 

 a ditch too large or too small for the area of land to be 

 irrigated. After the ditch is in use a man should know 

 at least the more simple and approximate ways of 

 measuring water, in order to protect himself against 

 the "water greed'' of his neighbors. 



Finally, in applying the water to the land a knowl- 

 edge of the moisture requirement of the crop as in- 

 fluenced by the physical and chemical condition of the 

 soil, the climate, surface and sub-surface drainage, 

 etc., will aid materially, not only in the economical 

 use of water, but also will result in increased crops. 



"pOREST RESERVE "SCRIP" is the safest and quickest 

 - means for obtaining immediate title to government land. 

 Write for special prices for certain localities. 



HUGO SEABERG, RATON, N. M. 



Two Dollars will secure for you one year's subscription to 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE and a finely bound volume of the Primer 

 of Irrigation which will be sent postpaid in a few months, 

 when volume is completed. The Primer of Irrigation will be 

 finely illustrated and will contain about 300 pages. Send post 

 office or express money order for $1.00 and secure copy of first 

 edition. 



ON 



Irrigation and Drainage 



THE IRRIGATION AGE has established a book 

 department for the benefit of its readers. Any 

 of the following named books on Irrigation 

 and Drainage will be forwarded postpaid on 

 receipt of price: 



Irrigation Institutions, Elwood Mead .............. 81.25 



Irrigation in the United States, F. H. Newell ...... 2.00 



Irrigation Engineering, Herbert M. Wilson ........ 4.00 



< > 



< > 

 > 



< > 



Irrigation and Drainage, F. H. King 



Irrigation for Farm and Garden, Stewart. 



.0 

 .00 



Irrigating the Farm, Wilcox 2.00 



The Primer of Irrigation, cloth, 300 pages 



Practical Farm Drainage, Charles G. Elliott.../.. 



Drainage for Profit and Health, Waring 



Principle and Practice of Farm Drainage, Klippart 



Farm Drainage, French 



Land Drainage, Miles 



.00 

 .00 

 .00 

 .(0 

 .00 

 .00 



Tile Drainage, Chamberlain 40 



Address 



THE D. H. ANDERSON PUBLISHING CO. 



112 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 



1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 



'All roads lead to Rome." 



And all business in New York seems 

 to trend toward 



Grand Central Station. 



This great building, which covers the 

 space of four city blocks, beginning at the 

 corner of 4th Avenue and 42d Street, is 

 the Metropolitan terminus of the 



NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES 



and is the center of the hotel, residence, 

 club and theater district of the second city 

 of the world. To reach it, see that your 

 ticket reads by the NEW YORK CENTRAL. 



A copy of the 40-page Illustrated Catalogue of 

 the " Four-Track Series," New York Central's 

 books of travel and education, will be sent free, 

 post-paid, to any address on receipt of a postage 

 stamp, by George H. Daniels, General Passenger 

 Agent, New York Central & Hudson River Rail- 

 road, Grand Central Station, New York. 



I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I M I I I I I I I I I I I I I 



