THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXII 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1916. 



No. 1 



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 



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Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

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Official organ Federation of Tree Growing Clubs of 

 America. D. H. Anderson, Secretary. 



The Executive Committee of the National Fed- 

 eration of Water Users' Association has taken action 

 whereby THE IRRIGATION AGE is creajed the official 

 organ of this vast organization, representing 1,000,- 

 000 persons on the government irrigation projects. 



The background to the recent 

 Eleventh activity at El Paso, and a feature 



Dry Farming that was at once entertaining and 

 Congress and instructive in the highest degree, 

 Exposition was the Soil Products Exposition, 

 extending over a period of three 

 weeks under the auspices of the National Dry 

 Farming Congress. 



The exhibits, comprising those of a large num- 

 ber of States and of the Federal Government, were 

 worthy of the occasion and fully up to the stand- 

 ard of the best expositions ever held in the country. 

 That it was fully appreciated was evidenced by the 

 large attendance and the results otherwise to such 

 a degree that the Farm Congress has felt justified 

 in pledging itself to holding similar expositions 

 annually. 



The Congress itself was a success in the same 

 pronounced measure. Addresses and subjects for 

 discussion were of the highest order. A most in- 

 teresting phase of the meeting was the decision to 

 incorporate under the name of the International 

 Farm Congress, and the extension of the scope of 

 its future activities to embrace not only the annual 

 exhibits referred to, but the subjects of Irrigation, 

 Livestock and General Agriculture. 



A full list of the papers delivered, of the speak- 

 ers and of the resolutions adopted will be published 

 in an early issue of the AGE. 



There is a possibility that the next 

 Twenty-fourth session of the International Irriga- 

 International tion Congress will be held in Ogden, 

 Irrigation Utah, provided the enterprising citi- 



Congress zens of that city are prepared to 



give the Board of Governors of the 

 Congress assurance that the sum necessary to de- 

 fray the expenses is forthcoming. The fact that 

 Utah men are prominent in the affairs of the Con- 

 gress will make it easier to raise the funds neces- 

 sary; it is reasonably certain that Salt Lake City 

 will not make a bid for it after the disastrous in- 

 vestment made by her public spirited citizens when 

 the Congress was held there in 1912. It is doubtful 

 if any money could be raised in Salt Lake City for 

 this purpose without full assurance that the fact of 

 the meeting being held in that city would help the 

 movement to pass the Sutherland bill, which will, if 

 it goes through, insure reasonable returns on the 

 investment. 



It is the opinion of the IRRIGATION AGE that the 

 Congress will never regain its former standing until 

 the necessary top expense for secretary and assist- 

 ants is done away with or materially reduced. 



The Board of Governors can readily change 

 this condition by voting to pay a secretary a per 

 diem sum for the actual time necessary to perform 

 the work. 



It will be remembered that the people of Ogden 

 and Utah saved the Congress at the time it was 



