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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXV 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1910. 



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The Irrigation Congress at Pueblo was 

 Irrigation in many ways wonderfully successful. 



Congress Through the good work performed by 



Success the Local Board of Control with Mr. P. 



Financially J. Dugan at the head, and Mr. R. H. 



Faxon as director of publicity, and 

 Arthur Hooker as general secretary, a good attendance 

 was obtained, and much valuable advertising was secured 

 for Pueblo and the territory of which it is the logical 

 business center. Pueblo has some immensely rich terri- 

 tory to draw from in the valleys extending in all directions 

 from its center, and no doubt much greater commercial 

 activity will come to its merchants as a result of this 

 meeting. Pueblo contributed handsomely to the expenses 

 of the congress, and while she was not so well supported 

 from other sections of the state, put over a good show, and 

 may rightfully feel proud of the results. 



The Eighteenth National Irrigation Con- 

 "Sunbursts" gress will go down in history as having 



and Halos entertained a larger number of "Sun- 



Diminishing bursts" along irrigation lines than has 



Propositions any of the past sessions. We had at 



Pueblo one or twd from Spokane around 

 whose heads, by close scrutiny, a reasonably distinct halo 

 could be distinguished. 



This is true of some other states. It is a strange 

 fact that after two or three years' experience with the 

 Congress, people from various sections of the country 

 come to the meeting expecting to dominate and in the 



firm belief that they are divinely appointed conservators 

 of both federal and private irrigation systems. 



For the benefit of these "sunbursts" THE IRRIGATION AGE 

 would suggest that there have been others before of their 

 ilk who have gone down and been forgotten. Vanity-fed 

 halos may properly be classed as diminishing propositions. 



We 

 Must 

 Increase 

 Production. 



The average yield per acre of wheat in 

 the last ten years was a little less than 

 14 bushels. For the preceding term of 

 ten years it was only 12 bushels. With 

 something of a curtailment in the crop 

 of 1910, owing to drouth, we have about 

 100,000,000 bushels of wheat for export. The growth of 

 population in America is rapid and we have all but reached 

 the point where home consumption demands all the food- 

 stuffs raised in this country. 



Our exports to Europe have fallen off so heavily in 

 the last few months that if it were not for the large cotton 

 crop the balance of trade this year would be seriously 

 against us. Such a condition is anything but satisfactory 

 and it may be the forerunner of hard times. 



The remedy is in better farming, so that instead of 

 14 bushels of wheat we shall harvest 30 bushels, and it is 

 only by irrigation that such results can be attained. There 

 is a great scare in this country over the scarcity of land, 

 but as a matter of fact there are a million farmers who 

 have twice as much land as they can work fully twice as 

 much as they ought to have. Our desire ought to be to 

 get better results from the land which now is under culti- 



