THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXV II 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1912. 



No. 11 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THH FARM HERALD 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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CONTENTS. The IRRIGATION AGE has se- 



Editorial IRRIGATION AGE cured very desirable headquarters 



Headquarters in the Hotel Utah, which will be 



Irrigation Age Headquarters Irrigation Congress 389 Irrigation Congress, the official headquarters of the 



Opportunity to Develop Trade in Argentina 389 National Irrigation Congress, and 



Costly Improvements on Denver & Rio Grande its friends will find a representative of this publication 



System 390 m room C-43 on the mezzanine floor, just one short flight 



! v, . - of steps above the main office floor. 



Idaho to Become Great Dairy State 390 .,, , . ... . . , . ,. , . 



All of its friends are invited to make this their 



Important Meeting to be Held at Salt Lake City.. 390 headquarters and have mail and other matter directed to 

 Distinguished Foreign Visitors Entertained 391 them there if they desire to do so. 



To Encourage Investment in Irrigation Securities 391 



American manufacturers are coming in 



Opportunity better touch with the local agricultural 



Principal Articles and Items- to Develop conditions of South American countries 



Irrigation in Victoria, Australia 392 Trade in and are supplying requests for lists and 



Hydraulic Fill Dams...:... .394 Ar S entina ' prices of agricultural machinery for 



Argentina and other countries with a 



Dr. Elwood Mead, C. E 396 v j ew to fill the wants of this and other growing countries. 



Large Crops in Yakima Valley 397 Argentina extends across more than 2,000 miles of 



latitude and is nearly one-third as large as the United 

 The Tractor for Deep Tillage 398 S{ates Jt mav> therefore| be seen that there is a great 



Bayfield, Colorado 399 opportunity for development of trade in the line of imple- 



Correspondence 400 ments and earth-moving machinery in that country. 



The Department of Agriculture in Washington has 

 Supreme Court Decisions 401 rece i ve d information of the establishment of a division 



Reclamation Notes 402 called the Laboratory of Agricultural Mechanics and 



A Remarkable Wall Lining.. . 406 Graphic W rks in connection with the Department of 



Agriculture of Argentina, with a view to study the 



The American Nile 408 mechanics of utensils, motors, implements and installa- 



Planting Onion Seeds 411 tions relating to agriculture, their economy and use, and to 



