THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1914. 



No. 4 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 

 The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MOOBKN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE IERICATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 

 PUBLISHER, 



30 No. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO 



'Old No. 1 12 Dearborn St 



Entered as second-class matter October S. 1897, at the 

 Pottofflce at Chicago. 111., under Act of March 3. 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON. Editor 



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 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



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 Office of the Secretary, 212 Boyce Building, Chicago. 



Interesting to Advertisers. 



It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age is the 

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation corpo- 

 rations. It is read regularly by all interested in this subject and haa 

 readers in all parti of the world. The Irrigation Age is 28 yean 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



The inauguration of the department 

 The of THE IRRIGATION AGE devoted to the 



First interests of the Federal Water Users 



Big has already brought one very im- 



Victory portant result for the project farm- 



ers. The Reclamation Record will 

 de belivered free of charge in the future to all Water 

 Users who may apply for it. 



This is just. It should have been done from 

 the beginning. The Water Users have to pay for the 

 publication of this document, and the bill is no small 

 item at the end of each year ; therefore they should 

 obtain some benefit from it. 



Statistician Blanchard, who has drawn a hand- 

 some salary for many years as publicity agent of the 

 Reclamation Service, having failed to arouse much 

 enthusiasm, the entire Reclamation Commission has 

 now joined in trying to induce the Water Users' 

 associations to become interested in this publication, 

 for which they are forced to pay the bills. They 

 have asked all the organizations to contribute news 

 and views each month to the Record and have even 

 created an "Open Forum." No personalities in the 

 latter department, however, will be permitted. That 

 is wise. 



Except for highly enlightening boosts for F. H. 

 Newell, A. P. Davis or some other prominent pay- 



roller, the Record has long been our most popular 

 publication for dry reading. Under the reformed 

 editorial policy, Hints for the Lovesick, fashion 

 notes and highly exciting continued stories may be 

 expected in the campaign to make it popular with 

 the farmers. We favor all this and more. If the 

 project settlers have to pay the bills of this publica- 

 tion, why not make it a paper in which every mem- 

 ber of the family can find something interesting. 



Increasing 

 Scarcity 

 of 

 Land 



It is not surprising that out of the 

 very general discussion of the past 

 few years of the conservation of 

 natural resources there has come to 

 be a clear recognition on the part of 

 the public that this is no longer a 

 country with an unlimited supply of land. What 

 is surprising is that the demand for land so heavy 

 for thirty-five years or more, the growing scarcity 

 of it should not have been earlier recognized. The 

 fact is that there is no longer a large area of home- 

 stead land worth the taking, and there is no longer 

 any very cheap land worth the buying. Land has 

 finally come into its own. 



More and more agricultural intelligence is be- 

 ing directed, not to the exploitation of new lands, 

 but to the wise development of those now under cul- 



