Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVII 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1912. 



No. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODKKN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID- WEST 

 THE FARM HERALD 



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CONTENTS. 

 Editorial 



Irrigation Securities Show Strength 421 



Over Irrigation a Menace 421 



Platform Twentieth Irrigation Congress 422 



Kinney on Irrigation and Water Rights 422 



Irrigation Age Beginning Twenty-eighth Year... 422 

 Meeting Place Twenty-first International Con- 

 gress 422 



Important Resolution Offered at Irrigation Con- 

 gress 422 



Slandering a Well Developed Irrigated Valley... 423 



The Twentieth National Irrigation Congress.... 423 



Principal Articles and Items 



Twentieth National Irrigation Congress 424 



' Some Phases of Irrigation in Relation to Fruit 



Growing 423 



Platform and Resolutions of 1912 Irrigation Con- 

 gress -:.. 428 



Irrigation and the Garden 429 



Water Supply Systems in the Farm Home 431 



The Irrigation of Alfalfa 433 



The Manufacture of India Rubber 434 



The English Walnut 435 



Important Amendment of the Reclamation Act.. 430 



Supreme Court Decisions 437 



Reclamation Notes 438 



Ready Now: The Primer of Hydraulics 442 



The Primer of Hydraulics A Review 443 



Monthly Digest 445 



Has Great Water Resources , 446 



There seems to be a vast improvement 

 Irrigation in the development of irrigation proj- 



Securities ects and the strengthening of irrigation 



Show Strength securities throughout the west. 

 and Improvement. On a recent visit through Colorado, 



Wyoming and Utah, the writer learned 

 that there is a much better feeling in money centers con- 

 cerning irrigation bonds, and this will, no doubt, result in 

 the rehabilitation of many projects which have laid dor- 

 mant for a number of years owing to lack of knowledge 

 on the part of capitalists of the physical features of the 

 various projects, as well as the ultimate profit to be de- 

 rived from a bonding basis. 



Over 

 Irrigation 

 A 

 Menace. 



We are publishing in this issue of THE 

 IRRIGATION AGE an article on the irri- 

 gation of alfalfa by Professor Alfred 

 Atkinson of the Montana Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. We are also repro- 

 ducing a paper delivered by Professor 

 W. J. Elliott before the Western Canada Irrigation Asso- 

 ciation at Kelowna, B. C. Professor Elliott is superin- 

 tendent of agriculture of the department of natural re- 

 sources of the C. P. Railroad. 



It will be noted by a perusal of these articles the im- 

 portance attached to the matter of over-irrigating. 



It is well worth the while of all of our readers who 

 are actively engaged in irrigation farming to study these 

 articles carefully. 



