THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXI 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1915. 



No. 1 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THH 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 S, 1897. at the Postoffice 

 at Chicago, III., under Act of March I, 1879. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Editor 



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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 30 years old and is the 

 pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



Bird and game reserves have been 

 Does U. S. created in and around the sites of 

 Intend to Sell nearly all reservoirs and other head 

 Project Game works of the Federal irrigation 

 Reserves? projects. 



And yet Secretary Lane is col- 

 lecting hard-earned money from the settlers for 

 the cost of these works. 



Why should they pay for anything to which 

 they cannot get title? To begin with, the law pro- 

 vides that the government shall keep the main 

 works until congress directs otherwise. And does it 

 stand to reason that the government is going to 

 sell these bird and game reserves? No! 



Charge off the costs of these works and then 

 the settlers will only have to pay about the amounts 

 provided in their contracts with the government 

 for their water rights. Then they will have a chance 

 to succeed in building up homes in the desert 

 country. 



The silo makes it possible to raise more feed 

 and to keep more cows on the same acreage and 

 substitutes certainty for uncertainty in the manage- 

 ment of the herd to an extent impossible in any 

 other way. 



Is education worth while for the 

 Proves That farmer? A great many indefinite 

 Education answers have been given by people 

 Helps the who have only their own opinions 



Farmer and limited observation. A more 



definite answer has just been given 

 by Professor O. R. Johnson, of the Missouri Uni- 

 versity College of Agriculture. 



Professor Johnson has carefully studied data, 

 secured by visits to 656 farmers, 554 of whom had 

 only rural school education, while the remainder 

 had secured more or less additional training. While 

 he recognizes the fact that this additional training 

 is not solely responsible for the better showing made 

 by the better educated man, there is every reason to 

 believe that their additional education has been a 

 very valuable investment, from the standpoint of 

 the pocket-book as well as that of social service, 

 which is not so easily measured. 



The better trained men secured average labor 

 incomes of $655 a year, or within $110 of twice as 

 much, as those who had only district school educa- 

 tions. This labor income is the net return left after 

 allowing 5 per cent interest on the value of the 

 farm and equipment used and reasonable charges 

 for other items. The educated farmer handled more 



