THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXXII 



CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1916. 



No. 2 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which it Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODE** IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



THE WATER USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRICATOR 



D. H. ANDERSON 



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Published Monthly at 30 No. Dearborn Street, 

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

 it Chicago, III., under Act of March t, 1878. 



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 Fed- 

 eration of Water Users' Association 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. 



Owing to the fact that a transcript 

 King of Judge Will R. King's part in the 



Graves debate at the International Irriga- 



Report tion Congress recently held at El 



Delayed Paso has not been furnished us by 



Judge King, it will be impossible to 

 publish the first paper covering same until our issue 

 of January. 



Judge King wires the AGE that stenographic 

 copy will reach us in time for that issue. 



Potatoes from the San Luis Valley, 

 What Colorado, are being received in car- 



Drainage load lots in the larger markets of the 



Will central states, and are selling for 



Do $2.10 a bushel in car lots. These 



potatoes are said to be unusually fine 

 and this brings to mind the fact that hundreds of 

 people in the middle west invested in San Luis lands 

 a number of years ago and on settling there, found 

 the land very fine and water for irrigation in 

 abundance. 



Owing to a lack of experience in irrigation farm- 

 ing, a large part of this land was overirrigated, 

 thereby bringing the water table so near the surface 

 that crops were ruined and large numbers of the 

 investors returned to their former homes with a 

 poor opinion of farming under irrigation. 



Subsequently those who remained studied the 

 problem of drainage and this remedy was applied. 



with the result that within the last two years a 

 great change has taken place and wonderful results 

 in the way of crops have been obtained ; this is par- 

 ticularly true of the potato crop, and in many in- 

 stances the yield has been in excess of 200 bushels 

 an acre. Thus it will be seen that the investors who 

 remained on their holdings and worked out the prob- 

 lem of drainage are being well repaid for their years 

 of hard work. 



This, it appears to us, is a great lesson to those 

 who, like the early settlers in the San Luis Valley, 

 are confronted with what may appear to be an un- 

 surmountable obstacle. 



Government officials are ready and willing at all 

 times to offer .such suggestions and assistance as 

 will aid the settler who will make his condition 

 known to the Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



More 

 About 

 Secretary 

 Hooker 



Many letters have been received by 

 the editor commendatory of our atti- 

 tude in our issue of November under 

 the title "What Ails the Irrigation 

 Congress." It appears that it only 

 required a moderate amount of pub- 

 licity to bring out the fact that these same thoughts 

 have been lying dormant in the minds of many who 

 are interested in the future of that organization. 

 One correspondent states that "a change should 

 have been made by electing a new secretary after 



