THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1913. 



No. 2 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE IRKIGATOR 



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We learn that the total amount of 

 Improved money remitted to growers in Idaho 



Method and the Northwest, by the North 



Fruit Pacific Fruit Distributers for the 



Distribution 1913 crop, passed the one million dol- 

 lar mark with the close of October. 

 It is stated, however, that many of the growers who 

 have shared in the one million dollar distribution for 

 the year 1913 are still awaiting payment on their 

 1912 crop shipped under a different regime and 

 before the organization of the North Pacific Fruit 

 Distributers. It would appear therefore, that this 

 organization will develop into a very good thing for 

 the growers of fruit and other crops, and it should 

 be supported by all of the substantial fruit-pro- 

 ducers throughout the Northwest. 



We are presenting in this issue an 

 Graves on article prepared by Henry S. Graves, 



Federal forester in charge of the Federal 



Forest Forest Service, which will be of in- 



Service terest to all of our readers. Much 



good work has been done in the For- 

 estry Bureau since it has been under the control of 

 Mr. Graves and we note that there is not as much 

 friction throughout the West as existed during the 

 Pinchot regime. It is presumed that Mr. Graves 



is broader in his views than was Mr. Pinchot, at 

 any rate, under the agitation which existed during 

 the time Mr. Pinchot was in charge and for a time 

 following his retirement, the criticism against his 

 policy was extreme and this criticism no doubt re- 

 sulted in bettering conditions. Mr. Graves has 

 profited by the experience of Mr. Pinchot and by 

 getting in closer contact with the people affected 

 by the old time forest policy, has changed matters 

 so that there is greater harmony and a better feeling 

 all around. 



"Bleeding 

 Kansas" 

 A 

 Misnomer 



The severe drought throughout 

 Kansas during the summer of 1913 

 may prove a blessing in disguise. 

 Reports from that state tell won- 

 derful stories of crops raised under 

 irrigation by pumping, details of 

 which are given on another page in this issue. 



Owing to the unreliability of the surface flow 

 of the Arkansas river in Eastern Colorado and 

 Western Kansas many of the stockmen and 

 farmers found it necessary to sink wells to augment 

 the supply of water for stock and domestic uses : 

 it was soon demonstrated that an inexhaustible 

 supply of water could be obtained at a moderate 

 depth and cost from the underflow. This led to an 



