THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVI 



CHICAGO, APRIL, 1911. 



No. 6 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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Open. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE desires to call again 

 The Department t h e attention of its readers to the fact that 

 of Correspond- a correspondence, question, and answer 

 ence Now department has been added to the editorial 



equipment and that any reader may send 

 any inquiry regarding technical points in 

 irrigation or hydraulics to this office, which inquiries will 

 be duly answered. 



The editor cannot warrant that he will be able to answer 

 any or every question, hut any question pertinent to irrigation 

 will be published, if possible, with an answer; but should this 

 not be done then there is little doubt that among the many 

 thousands of readers of IRRIGATION AGE there will be some 

 one who possesses the knowledge or experience who will 

 answer the inquiry. 



There is nothing like trying. Just send in your inquiry 

 and await results. 



A 

 Very 



Encouraging 



Elsewhere in this issue appears a very in- 

 teresting letter from Professor Montgom- 

 ery Moore, who has forsaken the classic 

 rooms of colleges and has gone back to 

 Communication, 'and for the purpose of acquiring health 

 and wealth. His experiences as related in 

 his Setter are exceedingly vivid and should appeal with pe- 

 culiar force to all those who have taken up irrigated land 

 recently or intend to do so in the future. 



The fact which looms up with greater force than any 

 other is this : that if a man of as little practical experience 

 j,n husbandry as Professor Moore is able to make a success 

 in building up a successful irrigated ranch then why should 

 men who are more or less used to hard work in the field 

 and farming hesitate to take hold of the numerous oppor- 

 tunities offered to acquire one of the rich patches of land 

 where irrigation assures a certain and abundant crop each 

 year? 



THE IRRIGATION AGE takes this opportunity to thank Mr. 

 Moore for his splendid letter and hopes that we shall have 

 the pleasure of further correspondence from him, as well 

 as from others of our readers who are willing to give an 

 account of their experience for the benefit of those who 

 are less experienced or entirely new in the business. An 

 interchange of ideas and experiences in this way is of the 

 greatest practical value and we hope that our readers will 

 make free use of our columns for this purpose. 



