Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVII 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1912. 



NO. 5 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



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CONTENTS. The importance of an efficient General 



Editorial Page Parcel Parcel Post System is self evident, and 



Parcel Post Legislation Needed 165 Post the establishment of such a system cannot 



Spring Is Here Now.. 166 Legislation be too highly recommended, therefore it 



Regulation Does Not Mean Extermination 167 Needed is necessary that the people at large should 



An Interesting Irrigation Case 168 make some well organized efforts to the 



Drainage Problems Require Attention 1&8 end that Congress will feel impelled to pass a satisfactory 



Erosive Action of Our Rivers 168 law which will make the establishment of a U. S. Parcel 



Thoughts That Come and Go 16S Post possible in the very near future. 



There are undoubtedly organized forces at work en- 

 Principal Articles and Items deavoring to defeat legislation in this direction, as the es- 



tablishment of parcel posts would mean the end of ex- 



The Collegeport Irrigation Pumping Plant 169 . , , . , 



Advantages of a Parcel Post. ...... .171 ploltat ' n f the **>& . by * e P r . ess com P a "T ho iave 



Wyoming's Irrigation Statistics . . 171 rown rlcl by the exerCISC f fUnCtlO " S whlch sh U ' d be j"* 



Utah's Irrigation Statistics 172 to the federal government. It stands to reason that these 



Wanted A Real Parcel Post.. 172 corporations will not let such a good thing slip away from 



New Mexico Bureau of Immigration. ...'....'. . 173 them without opposition, and there is nothing more natural 



Irrigation and Cultivation of Potatoes 174 than that they should try to prevent either legislation en- 



A New Departure in Flumes 175 tir el>', or if this is not possible to bring influence to bear 



Supreme Court Decisions 175 that the resulting Parcel Post will interfere with the Express 



Deming, New Mexico, Irrigation News. . ".'.'. ....... 176 Companies but very little. That such efforts are being made 



A Synopsis of the Drainage Problem 179 now is evident from the fact that the House Committee on 



The Latest Improvements in Ditching Machines... 180 Post Offices and Post Roads is apparently trying to quiet 



The Primer of Hydraulics 181 Parcel Post agitation by adding riders that are half-way 



Irrigation Accounting 182 measures, to the annual post office appropriation bill. They 



Reclamation Notes ...'.'.'. ...... ... . '.'. ..... '.'. '.'. .... .184 propose to carry parcels for 12 cents per pound, the same 



Farmers and Manufacturers Fight the Same Battles. 186 as now charged to foreign countries, and 50 per cent more 



Business Opportunities in the West 197 than was charged in 1874. 'They propose to charge 25 cents 



The Old Grind Stone.. 198 for n pounds on the rural routes, or twice what it should be. 



Mulching the Strawberry 199 Finally they propose an expensive commission of congress- 



