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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Third 

 National 

 Drainage 

 Congress. 



The call for the annual convention 

 of the National Drainage Congress, 

 which is to be held in St. Louis in 

 April of this year, has been sent out, 

 and calls attention again to the duty 

 which the nation should perform. 



Twenty American engineers and ex- 

 American p ert construction men sailed not 

 Engineers i ong ago from Galveston, Texas, for 

 for Barcelona, Spain, to begin contracts 

 Spain. f or power plants and irrigation proj- 

 ects approximating $40,000,000 in 

 value. The principal part of the work will be in 

 northeastern Spain, where thousands of arid acres 

 will be irrigated. 



The February issue of the IRRI- 

 GATION AGE was one of the best num- 

 bers yet put out and has brought 

 from our friends many kind words 

 and letters concerning its appearance 

 and the fact that we have taken over 

 our only remaining competitor. This is all very 

 gratifying and we are writing this to thank the many 

 friends who have written to us. 



February 

 Number 

 Attracts 

 Attention 



Litigation which would call a halt 

 Halt on on development representing mil- 



Development lions of dollars may result from ac- 

 Representing tion taken recently by the Yakima 

 Millions. Reclamation Water Users' Associa- 



tion. Resolutions were adopted pro- 

 testing against the plan to irrigate the reservation 

 suggested by the Reclamation Service or Secretary 

 of the Interior, involving the expenditure of $6,000,- 

 000. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE received a let- 

 India ter recently from Syed Barhanuddin 

 Engineer surveyor, Irrigation Branch, Ufzal- 

 Desires ganj, Hyderabad, India, asking for 

 Information information and books on irrigation 

 engineering. The gentleman asks 

 for suggestions as to the best book on irrigation and 

 storage reservoirs, im which the principles and prac- 

 tice of irrigation are fully covered. 



He also informs us that he is about to send his 

 brother to America to learn electrical and mechan- 

 ical engineering, and is desirous of securing in- 

 formation and full particulars as to the best college 

 in the United States where studies of this kind may 

 be taken up. 



We are producing elsewhere in this issue the 

 fnll letter from Mr. Barhanuddin, and while we will 



endeavor to furnish information from this office, it 

 is suggested that any of our readers who are in 

 position to aid the gentlemen, either furnish us the 

 information which may be forwarded to him, or 

 correspond with him direct. 



It should be remembered that the native engi- 

 neers in India are studying development in this 

 country so that they may better the condition of 

 their fellow-countrymen, and they should receive 

 every possible assistance from those in this countrv 

 who- are able to furnish it. 



Sweet 

 Clover 

 Good 

 Crop 



In an article by August H. Vogeler, 

 seedsman of Salt Lake City, which 

 appears in this issue, it will be noted 

 that he treats of sweet clover or 

 Bokhara, looked upon by many, at 

 present, as a worthless weed. 



It is well known that farmers throughout 

 central and eastern states try to clear it out of 

 their land. Of late years it has been mowed down 

 in the lightly traveled roadways where it had made 

 good headway, particularly around gravel pits and 

 road depressions which have been filled in with 

 gravel and clay. 



Mr. Vogeler states that one of the first ques- 

 tions asked in the old days when buying alfalfa 

 seed was "Is it free from sweet clover?" He goes 

 en to say further that in recent years sweet clover 

 has become very popular, not because the plant it- 

 self has undergone a change, but that its value has 

 become more generally known and better under- 

 stood. He stated, moreover, that this is also true 

 of many other plants which have heretofore been 

 considered of no use or value to mankind. 



Continuing, the article explains that some 

 years ago the agricultural college of Wyoming 

 made a lamb and sheep feeding test, and found that 

 sweet clover was superior to alfalfa. This was a 

 great surprise to all ranchmen and farmers who be- 

 came acquainted with the work that was going on, 

 and it will eventually materially change cropping 

 conditions throughout the central and eastern states. 



If sweet clover is as good for sheep as was 

 clearly proven in this experiment, there is no reason 

 why each small sheep raiser in Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin and various other states where wool and mut- 

 ton form a part of the annual product, should not 

 set aside a piece of pasture land and sow sweet 

 clover seed for fodder. 



Application has been made to the college in 

 Wyoming for the bulletin covering the experi- 

 ments along this line, and this bulletin will subse- 

 quently be published in full in the columns of the 

 IRRIGATION AGE, so that those who may be desirous 



