Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVIII 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1912. 



No. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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CONTENTS. 

 Editorials 



Irrigation Affairs Improving in the West 5 



Twenty-eight Years Old 5 



Fine Business Outlook Among Manufacturers.... 6 



Good Work by Bankers' Association 6 



National Waterways Magazine Announced 6 



More About Maxwell and Booth 7 



Girls Study to Improve Farms 7 



Phoenix Decides Not to Entertain Irrigation Con- 

 gress 8 



Principal Articles and Items 



Important Ruling by Secretary of the Interior.... 9 

 Government Dairy Division Opens Branch Office.. 9 

 Meeting of the American Reclamation Federation. 10 



Important Work of Reclamation Service 12 



Cruelties in the Poultry Yard 12 



The Western Slope 14 



I. H. C. Demonstration Farms 15 



Drainage 15 



New Incorporations 16 



International Irrigation Exhibit at San Diego 16 



Government Sale of Town Lots 17 



Reward for Information of Existence of Presence 



of Dourine 17 



Drain Tile Bulkheads 18 



American Farmers Require Large Fund of Knowl- 

 edge 19 



Supreme Court Decisions 20 



Injurious Results from Excess Use of Water 21 



Study of the Soils 21 



Reclamation Notes 23 



FEB 



Letters received from western states 

 Irrigation during the past month indicate a 



Affairs marked improvement in irrigation 



Improving development work. In a letter re- 



in West. ceived recently from Colorado, we 



are informed that several projects 

 that have laid in abeyance for the past year or more 

 have renewed activity and there is a likelihood of 

 fine development during the coming twelve months. 



This, our November, 1912, edition, 

 Twenty- marks the twenty-eighth birthday of 



Eight IRRIGATION AGE, and the beginning 



Years of Volume 28. We are glad to be 



Old. able to state' that the beginning of 



this twenty-eighth year shows 

 great improvement over conditions existing one 

 year ago. At that time there was still a feeling of 

 insecurity owing to the supposed instability of irri- 

 gation bonds, and the reticent attitude of capitalists 

 throughout the country who were approached for 

 money to carry out unfinished projects. 



As is known to thousands of our older readers. 

 the IRRIGATION AGE was the pioneer publication of 

 this class in the world, and has been published con- 

 tinuously in this interest for twenty-seven years. It 



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