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achievements. In the cabinets of all enlightened 

 governments, those whose conduct fails to justify 

 their titles or emoluments are permitted to retire 

 with more or less aplomb. There can be nothing 

 personal in the statement that five years of uninter- 

 rupted power should prove an adequate period in 

 which to test the measure of a man's ability. The 

 activities, the aims and ideals, everything that can 

 be assumed to represent the constructive policies 

 and the excuse for existence of the Congress, are 

 centered in its permanent executive officer its sec- 

 retary. He is not one who is asked or required to 

 do what his forerunners of conspicuous achievement 

 volunteered to donate his time and energies, or 

 even his financial support. The secretary of the 

 Congress is not only the recipient of a liberal salary, 

 but the beneficiary of various emoluments and 

 privileges. He is almost unhampered in the con- 

 duct of affairs. He exercises or would do so were 

 lie the strong character required for such an office 

 a free hand for the execution of anything within 

 reason. The incumbency of such an honorable 

 office is almost dazzling in its prospects of useful- 

 ness to the West to the nation at large the right 

 man in this place could easily become a figure of 

 national importance. 



"The AGE, in the past, has never permitted per- 

 sonal considerations to outweigh public considera- 

 tions, and it conceives the present crisis in the af- 

 fairs of the Congress to be of such a nature that 

 anything less than a frank statement and review of 

 the situation would constitute a dereliction of duty 

 towards its readers and the public interest. The 

 office of permanent secretary, with liberal appro- 

 priations, was created in 1909, and it has been 

 clothed continuously since that time by one man 

 the present incumbent who, however agreeable, 

 personally, must be held responsible for the present 

 condition of the Congress. 



"The inevitable conclusion of all the facts is 

 that he, and his administration, have been weighed 

 in the balance and found lamentably wanting. 

 Shall his costly regime be continued indefinitely?" 



There is no doubt that Ogden or Salt Lake City 

 would have entertained the congress in 1917, had 

 it not been for the unreasonable guarantee asked by 

 the Secretary and Board of Governors. 



The International Irrigation Congress will 

 never reach its former position of usefulness until 

 the city in which it is to be held is permitted to 

 decide on the question of expense in entertaining 

 that body as well as the amount of money necessary 

 to pay the salary of its permanent officer, the secre- 

 tary. 



A prominent ranchman and irri- 



Alfalfa gation commissioner for the state of 



a Good Kansas, Mr. J. W. Lough, of Scott 



'Crop in City, has demonstrated that alfalfa 



Kansas is a big and profitable crop for Kan- 



sas farmers. He has arranged for 

 the construction of twelve sets of improvements 

 this spring for tenants on his large ranch near Scott 



City. His $50,000 electric pump irrigation plant is 

 ready for service, and as he wants his land sown 

 to alfalfa as rapidly as possible, he is leasing a 

 part of it on very reasonable terms to parties who 

 are willing to assist in converting the raw prairie 

 into productive alfalfa fields that will prove re- 

 munerative to tenant and owner alike. Lough fur- 

 nishes the land, the seed, and the water for one-half 

 the crop, an arrangement that will prove profitable 

 to both parties. 



The capacity of the pumping plant is 28,000 

 gallons per minute, a quantity of water ample to 

 irrigate every foot of 5,000 acres once every two 

 weeks. This is double the amount of water ever 

 before required in the production of full crops. On 

 the land already under irrigation, Lough raised 

 more than eight tons of choice alfalfa hay per acre 

 last season, for which he refused $20 per ton. The 

 soil and the climate are ideal for the production of 

 the very best grade of alfalfa, and with an abun- 

 dance of water assured, the proposition has appealed 

 to a class of farmers who are sure to make a suc- 

 cess of the undertaking. They will share equally 

 with Lough in raising this alfalfa. 



This appears to be a fair plan for both Mr. 

 Lough and his tenants, and if alfalfa hay remains 

 anywhere near its present price the tenants should 

 in a few years be working and marketing crops 

 from their own land. 



STATEMKNT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCU.A- 



TION. ETC., REQUKKU BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS 



OF AUGl'ST 34, 1912, 



Of The Irrigation Age, published monthly at Chicago, 111., for 

 April, 1917. 

 State of Illinois. County of Cook, ss. 



Before me, a notary public, in and for the State and county 

 aforesaid, personally appeared D. H. Anderson, who, having been 

 duly swurn according to law, deposes and says that he is the pub- 

 lisher of The Irrigation Age and that the following is to the best of 

 his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, man- 

 agement (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid 

 publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the 

 Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and 

 Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 



1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, man- 

 aging editor, and business managers are: 



Publisher D. H. Anderson, 30 No. Dearborn St. 

 Editor D. H. Anderson, 30 No. Dearborn St. 

 Managing Editor D. H. Anderson, 30 No. Dearborn St. 

 Business Manager E. Donnelly, 30 No. Dearborn St. 



2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individ- 

 ual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and 

 addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of 

 the total amount of stock.) 



D. A. Anderson, 30 No. Dearborn St. 



3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security- 

 holders owning or holding 1. per cent or more of total amount of 

 bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so 

 state.) 



None. 



4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the 

 owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only 

 the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the 

 books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or 

 security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or 

 in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation 

 for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two 

 paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and 

 belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockhold- 

 ers and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the 

 company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other 

 than that of a bona fide owner; and this a^ant has no reason to 

 believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any 

 interest direct or Indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities 

 tran as so stated by him. D. H. ANDERSON, 



Editor, Publisher. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of April,: 1917. 

 (SEAL) MICHAEL J. O'MALLEY.- 



(My commission expires March 8, 1920.) 



