Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVII 



CHICAGO, APRIL, 1912. 



NO. 6 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODBKN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID- WEST 

 THE FARM HERALD 



D. H. ANDERSON 

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CONTENTS. 

 Editorial 



Develop Our Own Farm Lands ................... 205 



Back to the Place of Birth ........................ 206 



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A New Feature to be Added ...................... 207 



Thoughts That Come and Go ...................... 207 



Principal Articles and Items- 



Important Notice Affecting the Minidoka Project, 



Ij ano 208 



A Prosperous Irrigation Unit ...................... 208 



Soil Drainage .................................... 209 



Farmers' National Congress .................. 212 



Progress of the Reclamation Work ................. 213 



Nebraska Irrigation Statistics ...................... 214 



Beet Growing a Paying Crop ..................... 214 



The Storage of Portland Cement .................. 215 



Water Resources of the Northwest ................ 216 



Reclamation Organization ........................ 216 



Varieties of Potatoes and How to Handle Them ____ 217 



Kerosene Motors for Irrigation ....................... 218 



The Parcel Post Situation in Washington .......... 218 



Correspondence .................................. 219 



The Primer of Hydraulics ......................... 222 



Reclamation Notes ............................... 223 



Supreme Court Decisions Irrigation Cases ......... 226 



Potato Soil Preparation, Seed Planting and Seed 



Selection ---- ................................. 227 



International Institute of Agriculture .............. 227 



Corn Production in Argentina ....................... 228 



Land Opening in Wyoming ........................ 230 



Fattening Hogs in Nebraska ....................... 231 



New Development in Colorado .................... 233 



Engine Gang Plows in Demand .................... 236 



An Interesting Bulletin ........................... 237 



Develop 



Our Own 



p arm 



In a recent edition of the Milwaukee (Wis.) 

 Free Press appears an interesting and in- 

 structive article in which Secretary of the 

 State of Wisconsin James A. Frear opens up 

 the "*? < elation and the develop- 



ment of farmm S lands " He calls a ent ' on 

 to the fact that during the year 1912 there will in all proba- 



bilit y 200 ' 000 settlers leave the United States and go to 



Canada .' * ke Up l ^ S t ^t *"? ' ncldenta ? ^ 

 away with them something like two hundred millions of 



dollars to be used with their labor to promote the develop- 

 ment of the western provinces of Canada. He says in part : 

 wh does the Canadian government, according to report, 

 d $300,000 annually and her railroads as much more for 

 emigrat i on agents> literature and other advertising methods? 

 simply because $200,000,000 in money and 200,000 settlers is 

 a sta k e wort h playing for. Neither is this a case of Canadian 

 reciprocity with any reciprocal returns, because what is 

 Canada's gain is our loss. What proportion of this loss 

 strikes Wisconsin, Minnesota and other border states? While 

 exact data cannot be had, we read the result in Wisconsin's 

 shrunken population throughout the western counties of the 

 state that are reached by Twin . City agencies, and no man 

 can study the stationary population of the state outside our 

 own cities without realizing that we are losing where we 

 ought to gain. 



With threefold better opportunities in Wisconsin for the 

 average small farmer than are found in Canada, when we 

 see our people throw away a certainty for hardship and 

 uncertainty to move across the border, we are free to admit 

 that advertising pays. Minnesota discovered the danger sev- 

 eral years ago and now appropriates $20,000 annually for its 

 immigration bureau, although this is only 20 per cent of 

 the amount recommended by Governor Eberhard's message 

 last year. 



