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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



NINETEENTH NATIONAL IRRIGATION 

 CONGRESS. 



When the Nineteenth Irrigation Congress meets in 

 Chicago next December it will be an international instead 

 of merely national body, if the plans of certain members 

 of the board of control are carried out. The board of 

 control is composed of the following members: 



Henry A. Allen 



C. P. Anderson 



D. H. Anderson 

 Bion J. Arnold 

 F. C. Austin 

 Alfred L. Baker 

 Frank I. Bennett 

 W. J. Black 

 Leonard J. Blades, Jr. 

 William A. Bond 

 Munson P. Buel 

 William B. Bogert 

 William H. Bush 



H. M. Byllesby 

 Edward F. Carry 

 George W. Dixon 

 Hugo Du Brock 

 Clinton B. Evans 

 Victor Falkenau 

 Don Farnsworth 

 Samuel Fallows 

 William A. Gardner 



William H. Manss 

 Clayton V. Mark 

 R. R. McCormick 

 James A. McLane 

 Frank R. McMullin 

 Walter E. Miller 

 Walter L. Moody 

 Joy Morton 

 H. U. Mudge 

 Robert T. Nelson 

 LaVerne W. Noyes 

 Harrison M. Parker 

 L. B. Patterson 

 Isham Randolph 

 Charles H. Ravell 

 Alexander H. Ravell 

 George M. Reynolds 

 Harrison B. Riley 

 Fred J. Ringley 

 George B. Robbins 

 R. J. Roulston 

 George W. Sheldon 



[udson F. Going 

 Edward M. Hagar 

 Richard C. Hall 

 John D. Hibbard 

 William Holabird 

 Robert W. Hunt 

 Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones 

 Joseph F. Kelly 

 George Thomas Kelly 

 Thomas D. Knight 

 Julius Kruttschnitt 

 E. Louis Kuhns 

 Francis M. Lane 

 Frank C. Letts 

 William A. Lydon 

 Eames MacVeagh 



Francis W. Shepardson 

 Willard A. Smith 

 John A. Spoor 

 Mason B. Starring 

 H. L. Taft 



Roy A. H. Thompson 

 Dr. Fenton B. Turck 

 Fred W. Upham 

 W. F. Van Buskirk 

 W. C. Vandervoort 

 J. C. Vaughan 

 W. C. Vierbuchen 

 Charles J. Vopicka 

 H. U. Wallace 

 T. K. Webster 

 Henry C. Wood 



President Taft has already given his consent to speak 

 at the congress. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The world's largest land and irrigation exposition 

 will be held in Madison Square Garden at New York City 

 from November 3rd to November 12th, 1911. 



The Oregon Agricultural College will have charge of the 

 experimental farm now being put in shape alongside the 

 West Stayton depot. Ten acres have already been set to 

 various crops to demonstrate what irrigation in summer will 

 accomplish. 



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FARMERS' CLUBS. 



Farmers' Clubs can he made social centers 

 as well as the place for exchanging experiences 

 on farm and home topics. 



This is the day of cooperation or combina- 

 tion. Men in all lines of effort except pos- 

 sibly the farmer, come together at more or 

 less regular intervals to talk over their work, 

 to give each other the benefits of each other's 

 experiences, and to come to a better under- 

 standing in their business legations. The 

 different manufacturers, the editors, the re- 

 tailers, the scientists, the educators, laborers, 

 etc., hold meetings. Why not the farmers? 

 We are in more need of it than any of the 

 others, from the social standpoint, from the 

 standpoint of swapping experiences, and from 



As farmers we live more or less isolated 

 the standpoint of a better understanding of 

 business matters. 



and our work is so varied that it has some- 

 thing of interest and that needs attention all 

 the time, yet we must learn to drop it ail for 

 a social hour occasionally and for our wives 

 and children as well as for ourselves. Ip tact 

 they need it more than we do as there is not 

 the variety in their wrk nor so much LO hold 

 their interest and a{tntion. 



In every community there are some farmers 

 who are making a good success with some 

 thing, as growing corn, trees, potatoes, fruit, 

 or raising cattle, hogs, horses, etc. There^ is 

 no magic about it, except doing the right thing 

 at the right time, and they would be glad to 

 tell how it was done. They are likely not 

 ready speakers before a larjje audience but in 

 a conversational way they can tell the story. 

 If all were to study and try to improve along 

 the lines of the successful farmer it would 

 make the community an outstanding one. 



Then there are the good wives in every com- 

 munity who have had fine success in some 

 line of their work, as making bread, canning 

 fruit, growing flowers, house decoration and 

 the hundred and one other things. 



The community has among its members those 

 who can teach each other from their own ex- 

 periences, and the farmers' club with its stated 

 meetings is the ideal place *o gather and 

 exchange this valuable information. Few real- 

 ize how valuable they are. Reports could also 

 be made on bulletins from the Agricultural 

 Experiment Stations and on articles in the 

 Agricultural papers and magazines. 



Such a club would bring together a great 

 teaching force; specialists in almost every line 

 of farm and home activity. It would be a 

 great incentive to make these specialists study 

 deeper into their lines of work, to learn more 

 of what others have done. Speakers can often 

 be secured from the Agricultural College and 

 Farmers' Institute. Now do not under-estimate 

 your worth to the community nor your qualifi- 

 cations for instructing others. No information 

 is so valuable as that which comes from a 

 man or woman who has actually secured re- 

 sults. 



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