Year 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIX 



CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1914. 



No. 12 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 

 The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION 



THE IRRIGATION ERA 

 ARID AMERICA 

 THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN 



THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 

 MID-WEST 



THE FARM HERALD 

 THE IRRIGATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



PUBLISHER, 



Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

 CHICAGO 



Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1897, at the Postoffice 

 at Chicago, 111., under Act of March 8, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of 

 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



The Executive Committee of the National Federation 

 of Water Users' Associations has taken action whereby 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE is created the official organ of this 

 vast organization, representing 1,000,000 persons on the 

 government irrigation projects. 



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 corporations. It is read regularly by all inter- 

 ested in this subject and has readers in all parts of the 

 world. The Irrigation Age is 29 years old and is the 

 pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



Thirty years old. 



A Long The November issue of THE IRRIGATION 

 and AGE will witness the beginning of the 



Useful thirtieth year of life and work of this 



Life magazine. And what a life and a work 



it has been ; one filled with hard strug- 

 gles, with bitter fights, with some defeats and some 

 victories. For its publisher THE AGE has acquired 

 some unrelenting foes and thousands of life-lasting 

 friendships. 



THE AGE has weathered, during its long life, 

 many storms, in which many another ship sank. It 

 has steered straight toward the goal of right and 

 justice, day in and day out, in sunshine or in storm, 

 and today, at the beginning of its thirtieth year, it 

 stands pre-eminent and alone in its field. Merged 

 with THE AGE today are The National Land and Ir- 

 rigation Journal, Modern Irrigation, The Irrigation 

 Era, Arid America, The Drainage Journal, Mid- 

 west, The Farm Herald, The Irrigator and The 

 Water Users' Bulletin. 



The last named journal became a member of 

 THE AGE family when The National Federation of 

 Water Users' Association made THE AGE its official 

 organ, and this magazine with renewed vigor 



opened its guns on the Federal bureaucracy, which 

 has controlled the Reclamation Service for years 

 arrogantly and with a policy of rule or ruin rule 

 and jobs for the bureaucracy; ruin for the hapless 

 settlers. 



In absorbing these various competitors, the 

 publisher of THE AGE was actuated only by a desire 

 to better serve the subscribers and advertisers. For 

 the subscribers, and all interested in irrigation, 

 these absorptions meant a better magazine because 

 from each of our former competitors we acquired 

 some ideas, features or contributors, and thus added 

 strength to THE AGE. For the advertisers in the ir- 

 rigation field, we feel we have done a service for 

 which mere advertising rates, however high they 

 might be placed, cannot pay. We have concen- 

 trated in one magazine the vehicle for their adver- 

 tising. 



The record of THE AGE is remarkable. It is 

 one of which we feel justly proud. We have suc- 

 ceeded where others failed, because THE AGE is built 

 upon solid foundations, and each year it has grown 

 better and stronger. Each year its influence has 

 spread. It is read today in every corner of the 



