THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVI 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1911. 



No. 11 



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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CONTEXTS. 

 Editorial 



Drouths Prove Blessings in Disguise 1053 



A Use for the Panama Canal Tools 1054 



The Changes of the Seasons 1054 



Slow Increase in Number of Farms During Last 



Decade 1055 



Thoughts That Come and Go 1055 



Principal Articles and Items 



The Cienega Sub-Surface Dam Near Tucson, Ari- 

 zona 1056 



Washington's Irrigation Statistics 1057 



Present Status of the Reclamation Work of the Gov- 

 ernment Projects 1058 



How to Use the Leveling Frame 1061 



Arizona's Irrigation Statistics 1062 



Statistical Record of the United States 1062 



Saratoga, Wyoming, and Vicinity 1063 



South Dakota's Irrigation Statistics 1063 



The National Irrigation Congress 1064 



Meeting Places and List of Officers of the National 



Irrigation Congress, 1891-1911 1065 



Something New in Irrigation Flumes 1065 



The Primer of Hydraulics 1066 



A Move in the Right Direction 1067 



Correspondence 1068 



Silos for Missouri 1069 



Reclamation Notes 1070 



New Corporations o 1073 



Supreme Court Decisions 1078 



Conservation of Water Power 1082 



Agriculture for Women 1082 



Another South Dakota Land Drawing 1083 



Miscellaneous Notes on Irrigation 1084 



Drouths 

 Prove 

 Blessings 

 in Disguise. 



The many crop failures which have oc- 

 cured on account of protracted drouths 

 during the last few years in various parts 

 of the United States, where the rainfall 

 is supposed to be abundant and sufficient 

 for all purposes have caused the affected 

 farmers to do some hard thinking and to figure on ways 

 and means of providing water for the growing crop when 

 the rain supply fails. As a result, there is considerable ac- 

 tivity in many sections of this country where individual 

 farmers are working up schemes to provide a supply of 

 water artificially, or in other words make some applica- 

 ^on of irrigation to supplement the rainfall or to entirely 

 supply their growing crop with water at times when it is 

 needed. 



This new development along progressive lines can- 

 not fail to have very beneficial results. How much water 

 is running to waste for instance in almost any state 

 through creeks and rivers, while the crops on the fields 

 alongside are burning up for the want of it? In many 

 cases a dam of a few logs thrown across a creek and a 

 ditch cut from the reservoir thus formed will bring suffi- 

 cient water on the fields or meadows to save the crops in 

 case of drouth or to increase the yield to a considerable 

 degree by irrigating at the required times. 



Nor is it necessary that there should be a flowing 

 creek at hand to engage in auxiliary irrigation, for any- 

 where, where water may be had by pumping and in reason- 

 able quantities and at a reasonable elevation it will pay 

 the farmer to install a pumping plant for the purpose. 



