THE IERIGATION AGE. 



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IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE 



To Be a Feature at Panama-International 

 Exposition. 



Agriculture, that vast contributor to the sup- 

 port and wealth of nations, is to be one of the most 

 important departments of the Panama-Pacific Inter- 

 national Exposition, now in the making at San 

 Francisco and whose gates will open in February, 

 1915. Two magnificent exhibit palaces, devoted to 

 agriculture and to food products, are among the 

 fourteen that are being erected by the exposition 

 company, and a most comprehensive classification 

 of exhibits has been prepared by Captain Asher 

 Carter Baker, director of this important feature of 

 the fair. 



In Captain Baker's classification of agricultural 

 exhibits the subject of irrigation has been given 

 ample representation. In the grouping of farm 

 equipment and methods of improving lands will be 



and beverages, inedible agricultural products such 

 as the textile plants, useful insects and their prod- 

 ucts, injurious insects and plant diseases. A com- 

 plete exhibit of forestry and forest products is 

 also included, as are numerous special features men- 

 tioned which space forbids. 



In connection with the general agricultural ex- 

 hibit there will be the most comprehensive exhibit 

 of live stock ever made at any previous exposition. 

 This department is under the supervision of D. O. 

 Lively, organizer and manager of the Pacific North- 

 west Live Stock Association, and one of the fore- 

 most authorities in his line. He is assisted by Chas. 

 F. Mills, of Springfield, 111., who is chairman of the 

 advisory committee to the live stock department. 

 Prize cattle from all parts of the world will be on 

 view, together with horses and mules, sheep, goats, 

 swine, dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, birds and poultry. 

 Methods of breeding and raising, breed milk con- 

 tests, running and harness races and many other 



Truck Garden, Huntley Project, Montana, Showing Potatoes, Corn, Cabbage, Tomatoes, Beans, Peas, Carrots, Melons and Cucumbers. 



found a complete exposition of material and appli- 

 ances used in agricultural engineering, for the re- 

 claiming of marshes, for irrigation and drainage. 

 Another important group is constituted by exhibits 

 relating to the theory of agriculture to studies 

 bearing upon soil and water from an agricultural 

 point of view. The up-to-date methods and appli- 

 ances will afford an unequalled educational oppor- 

 tunity to the farmer from any part of the world. 



In this educational connection, a determined 

 effort is being made by the exposition authorities to 

 secure the 1915 meeting of the National Irrigation 

 Congress for San Francisco. 



Besides the groups above mentioned, the depart- 

 ments of Agriculture will comprise detailed displays of 

 agricultural implements and farm machinery, fertiliz- 

 ers, appliances and methods used in agricultural indus- 

 tries, agricultural statistics, animal and vegetable food 

 products and vegetable seeds, appliances for gather- 

 ing wild crops and the products obtained, equipment 

 and methods employed in the preparation of foods 



features will be embodied in the exhibits and dis- 

 plays of this department. 



NOTES. 



M. Z. King, of Oklahoma, wants to end drouths in 

 the arid regions of the Southwest by darning the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado with rock and concrete. He 

 says that a lake of 4,000 square miles could be made and 

 that this amount of water, distributed at will, would in- 

 sure crops. 



King has progressed so far in his scheme that he has. 

 had an oil painting made of the Grand Canyon as he 

 proposes that it shall be. This painting was on exhibi- 

 tion at the fair at Oklahoma City and King lectured about 

 it daily. He will take it to the Dry Farming Congress 

 at Tulsa and after his lectures there will donate it to 

 the historical society. 



"Rhubarb king of Oklahoma" is the title by which 

 J. W. LaGrange of Yukon is known. Even a casual visit 

 to his farm would serve to establish the merit of the 

 claim. It stood four and five feet high and was yielding 

 from ten to fifteen tons an acre and selling for 6 to 12J4 

 cents a pound. Mr. LaGrange leases the farm from A. 

 S. Perry, who for years was a successful irrigation truck 

 grower of central Oklahoma. 



