Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXVIII 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1912. 



NO. 2 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION 

 THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID- WEST 

 THE FARM HERALD 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 

 30 No. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



Old No. 112 Dearborn St. 



Entered as second-class matter October Z, 1897, at the 

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COXTEXTS. 

 Editorials 



American Machinery Wanted in Australia 



Major Fred Reed Appointed Irrigation Commis- 

 sioner 



Controversy Over Grand Valley Project, Colorado. 



Irrigation Situation Demands Consideration 



Wearing Out of Earth's Surface 



Primer of Irrigation Used as Text-Book 



Secretary Fisher Offers Recommendations 



Principal Articles and Items 



The Importance of Water Measurement 



Preparation of Seed-Bed for Alfalfa 



Holden Leaves Iowa 



Correspondence 



Monthly Digest 



Evolution of the Wagon 



Supreme Court Decisions 



Reclamation Notes 



Irrigation of Alfalfa 



A Soil Condition 



How to Drain Farm Lands 



Underground Waters a Vital Necessity 



River Water Used Eight Times 



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American 



Machinery 



Wanted 



In Australia. 



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Qn our correspondence page in this 

 issue will be found a letter from Mr. 

 Thomas Bunbtiry of Ballendella, P. 

 O., Rochester, Victoria, Australia, 

 in which he gives some information 

 concerning the development of that 

 country. We are pleased to note that Mr. Bunbury 

 will send us matter regularly from his section of 

 Victoria for publication in the columns of the IRRI- 

 GATION AGE. 



Our readers who are interested in certain lines 

 of machinery about which he makes inquiry, will do 

 well to correspond with Mr. Bunbury, as there is 

 likely to be a good field open for this class of ma- 

 chinery throughout all Australia as development 

 goes on. 



We note with pleasure that Major 

 Maj. Fred Reed Fred R. Reed of Wendell. Idaho, 

 Appointed has been appointed Commissioner of 



Immigration Immigration. Labor and Statistics 

 Commissioner, for the state of Idaho by Governor- 

 elect Haines. This is very gratify- 

 ing news and we are very glad to know that the 

 ability of Major Reed has been recognized in this 

 manner. 



Governor-elect Haines states that in selecting 



