THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXX 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1914. 



No. 1 



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 3, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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Thoroughly worn out from a year's 

 The Farmer nerve-racking work in a big city, 

 Boy vs. the writer recently went out into 



The City the country to rest. Under four 



Boy great oak trees on a point jutting out 



out into the river, he pitched his "pup" 

 tent, dug a little furnace in the sod over which he 

 could cook his own meals and prepared to rest. 

 He fished a little, slept fourteen hours a day,, ate 

 well, drank cool spring water and meditated much. 

 It was this or doctor bills. 



A half a mile away was the farm house, where 

 the kindly, big hearted wife gave him fresh cream 

 and eggs and home made bread, when his supplies 

 ran low. There are three boys on that farm, all 

 clean cut, muscular, handsome fellows, brown as a 

 nut, healthy and happy. It was necessary for the 

 writer to keep in close touch with his business af- 

 fairs by telephone and letter daily that is why he 

 was alor^e in camp instead of being out in the 

 Rockies of Montana, where his wife and baby were 

 spending their vacation. On his daily visit, he had 

 opportunity to see much of the three farmer boys, 

 in their home, in the fields, around the barns and 

 at their chores. He talked much with them. And 



as he wandered back to his little tent, he meditated 

 much about them. 



How much better off are these boys and prac- 

 tically every other farmer boy than the boys in 

 the cities. How much healthier they are. How 

 much easier is their lot. How much happier they 

 should be. 



True they have to get up with the sun. Milking 

 is not easy work. Neither is the work around 

 the barns. The work in the fields is done under 

 the boiling sun. Yes, these might be cited as dis- 

 advantages of being a farmer boy. 



But the advantages are such as to offset the 

 disadvantages. Out in the fields these boys have 

 no money-grasping boss to drive them ; to demand 

 every drop of blood and energy in their brain 

 and bodies in return for the wage he pays them. 

 When they reach the end of a furrow they can stop 

 and rest for a moment or two. If a young rabbit 

 or a gopher crosses their trail, they can jump from 

 their plow and chase the "critter" to their heart's 

 delight. And we do not believe riding on a sulky 

 plow or a cultivator or a mower is the hardest 

 work in the world. 



If it rained hard the night before, after milking 

 and the chores are done, there is little work in 



