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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXX 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1914. 



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 WATER USERS' BULLETIN 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, III., 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. 



This is the season of holiday cheer. 

 Make This Make the most of it. 

 Christmas THE IRRIGATION AGE extends to all 

 One of its subscribers, its advertisers and its 

 Real Joy friends the most hearty wishes of its 

 publisher and its editor that they may 

 have the merriest of Christmases and a most pros- 

 perous New Year. These wishes come from the 

 botto'm of our hearts and are but scant compensa- 

 tion for the kindly and friendly treatment which 

 you have extended to us in the thirty years' life of 

 THE AGE. 



THE AGE also would like to extend to its 

 readers just a bit of Christmas advice advice which 

 we believe* will make the holidays more cheerful to 

 you and yours. 



Do not try to overdo Christmas. Give the chil- 

 dren the best Christmas your means will afford 

 they will not be young much longer but do it in 

 such a way that it is not going to be a burden or 

 rob the home of necessities. 



Try to give useful gifts. They need not be ex- 

 pensive. In many cases, a card expressing your 

 good wishes will prove far more welcome and ac- 

 ceptably than will a present, which the recipient 

 may know you could hardly afford to give. 



Add to your Christmas cheer by making some 



poverty-stricken or sick person, to whom the world 

 has not been so kind, happy on Christmas day. 



When you start on your Christmas shopping 

 tour try to find gifts that will spell value every day 

 in the year. If mother has to do her own washing, 

 what's the matter with a power washing machine 

 that will save her from rubbing her poor arms off 

 once a week during the years to come? Or a little 

 engine that will turn the washing machine, pump 

 the cistern water and operate the churn? 



Do something at Christmas time to make the 

 housewife's burden lighter. Not only will it please 

 the wife, but it will be a good investment for the 

 whole family. The mother will have lots more time 

 to give to the little niceties about the house that she 

 yearns to do but now has not the opportunity. 



Give the children toys, but also give them 

 books and games particularly books worth while, 

 among them a book that will interest the boy and 

 the girl in modern agriculture, that will show to 

 them that in all this world there is no place which 

 offers so many advantages today to the boy or girl 

 as the farm, if the farming is done along approved 

 and scientific lines. There are books of this kind 

 in the markets. We shall not attempt to suggest a 

 list of them. Ask the school teacher. If he or she 

 is really interested in your community life, he can 



