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THE IREIGATION AGE. 



FROM OUR EXCHANGES. 



IRRIGATION. 



I remember, I remember, on the old home farm back East, 

 Where dry weather brought us famine, where timely rains 



meant feast; 

 How we broke our backs a-plowing, put good money in the 



field, 

 But never knew, for certain, what the harvest time would 



yield. 



I remember, I remember, how our father used to stare 

 Into the sky at morning asked for rain at evening prayer, 

 While the mortgage knew no seasons, worked on Sundays, 



night and day, 

 Kept up boys away from college, turned our mother's hair to 



gray. 



I remember, I remember, when we all were dispossessed, 

 And disgrace at the foreclosure drove us to the great 



NORTHWEST, 

 Where we gazed in wide amazement at the crops raised 



without rain, 

 By flooding fields from ditches where we all took heart 



again. 



I remember, I remember, how the first crop that we raised 

 More than paid for all our land father's shout, "the Lord be 



praised," 



Wealth has since come every season blessed Irrigation s art^j 

 Father prays, no longer selfish, "Give us each a contrite heart." 



GEO. M. BAILEY, 

 President Northwest Townsite Company. 



FAKE "FIRE ADS" IN BAD. 



CITY ORDINANCE OUTLAWS SCHEMES DESIGNED TO MIS- 

 LEAD THE PURCHASING PUBLIC. 



Seattle, Dec. 17. An ordinance prohibiting the 

 advertising of "fake" fire, bankruptcy, receivership or 

 other sales became effective here today. Under its 

 terms the publication of an advertisement which mis- 

 represents the value or quality of any commodity of- 

 fered for sale is punishable by a fine not exceeding 

 $100. The ordinance was advocated by the advertis- 

 ing men of the city. The Town Crier, St. Paul, 

 Minn. 



This is a move in the right direction. 



RAILWAY AND ENGINEERING LITERATURE. 



THE PRIMER OF HYDRAULICS. By Frederick A. 

 Smith, Hydraulic Engineer, Chicago. Published by 

 D. H. Anderson, 30 North Dearborn street, Chicago. 

 Cloth, 5x8 inches, 217 pages; price, $2.50. 



The author of this book is assistant engineer in 

 the department of public works, in Chicago, and in 

 the course of many years' work in that department 

 he was obliged to prepare tables, diagrams and for- 

 mulas suitable for analyzing various problems which 

 came up in connection with the flow of water in cir- 

 cular conduits running partially full. The conditions 

 here met were not covered in the text books or other 

 current technical literature. These tables, prepared to 

 meet the conditions of actual practice, have been 

 elaborated and embodied in this work, together with 

 other new matter, the idea being to collect sufficient 

 rules and tabular information to solve any problems 

 relating to the flow of water in channels of the usual 

 construction that are employed in municipal, drain- 



age or irrigation work. The treatment begins with 

 fundamentals, and is presented in such style that the 

 non-technical reader may comprehend the subject and 

 intelligently analyze hydraulic problems that are 

 ordinarily met with. Various chapters of the book 

 deal with problems relating to open channels, closed 

 channels, pipes flowing full under pressure, subdivi- 

 sion of channels, and loss of head by enlargement of 

 channel and at the entrance to pipes. There are two 

 chapters relating to ditches, with tables applying to 

 the same. This little volume contains data or in- 

 formation for the complete practical treatment of 

 various problems, which, but for a hand book of this 

 kind, would involve the consultation of a number of 

 references. Railway Engineering. 



COMING BACK FROM CANADA. 



Many of the American farmers who went into 

 Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the boom days, are 

 preparing to return to the United States, according to 

 J. B. Reisman of St. Paul, who has just returned from 

 Winnipeg, says the Duluth News Tribune. 



"Coming from Canada I was told." said Mr. 

 Reisman, "that 80 per cent of the American farmers 

 who went into Manitoba and Saskatchewan, will re- 

 turn to their home country in another year ; some of 

 them, in fact, are leaving now. It seems that the high 

 cost of living in that country has decided them to 

 return to America, where they can buy necessities for 

 less money than they can in the Dominion. The great 

 importation of American products into Canada is one 

 reason for the advanced prices. 



"The Canadians recognize the fact that many of 

 the American farmers who went there in the boom 

 days are leaving." Bangor Independent. 



It now begins to look as if the people of the 

 west are fully aroused over the proposition to have 

 all the remaining government land ceded to the 

 states. Of course it will be quite a difficult matter 

 to get the eastern congressmen to understand our 

 troubles or to show an inclination to get us out of 

 the dilemma imposed upon us by the federal bu- 

 reaucrats. Whenever anything like this is pro- 

 posed in congress the dog soldiers in the various 

 bureaus set a back fire in the committee rooms 

 where the business is smothered without any fur- 

 ther ado over it. The government holds this prop- 

 erty in trust for the people who come within these 

 great commonwealths. It was never intended that 

 they should have the heart carved out of them and 

 be left with but the remnant of a carcass, but it 

 was designed that from these resources the man- 

 hood and the womanhood of each state should make 

 a great commonwealth and we were getting along 

 all right until the bureau autocracy at Washington 

 nosed into upset matters and put the whole propo- 

 sition on the bum. The recent election throughout 

 the Rocky mountain region should serve as a warn- 

 ing answer to those politicians who are smart 

 enough to read the handwriting on the wall. Field 

 and Farm. 



