IRRIGATION-- IRRIGATION--MEANS AND ENDS, chap. xii. 74; need of water for crops not often kept in view, 74; the authors observations in Lombardy (Italy), 74-5; the Atlantic Slope and Irrigation, 76; author's experience in irrigation, 76-7; results, 76; irrigation of New England farms, 78; advantages that would result therefrom, 78. POSSIBILITIES OF IRRIGATION, chap. xiii, 79; natural facilities for irrigation general, 79; artesian wells on the prairies, 79; wells in California, 80; water as a fertilizer, 80; crops in Virginia suffering from want of irrigation, 80-1; counsel to farmers on irrigation, 81-2; great profits to be realized by irrigation, 82-3; need of irrigation in the Eastern and Middle States considered, 83; the prairie States after 1900, 83; common objections to irrigation, 84; it must become general, 247; wells will be sunk for the purpose, 247; a steam locomotive for the purpose referred to, 247; irrigation will become general, 247; WESTERN IRRIGATION, chap. xliv, 260; irrigation is practicable everywhere, 260; the portion of our country which cannot be cultivated without irrigation, 260; its extent, 260; its climate, 260; it is spoken of as desert, 261; the readiest means of irrigating the plains, 261; their extent, 261; the North and South Platte rivers, 261; Union Colony, 262; its location, 262; location of Greeley, 262; the first irrigating canal of Union Colony, 262; branches and ditches therefrom, 262-3; how the water is deflected to it, 263; the larger and longer canal, 263; doubts at first entertained respecting the capacities of the soil, 264; proved baseless, 264; products of the soil, 264; the cost of irrigation is not in excess of cultivating without it, 264; demonstration thereof, 265; it would pay to expend $10 per acre for irrigating New England grass lands, 266; MORE OF IRRIGATION, chap. xlvi, 274; irrigation of places bordered by streams referred to, 274; the facilities the Platte offers for irrigation, 274-5; results that may be attained, 275; the Plains, 275; obstacles to their cultivation, 275-6; the change that will be yet effected, 276; how the plains will be irrigated, 276-7; artesian wells, 277-8; the co-operation of railroad companies anticipated, 278; rain increases as settlements are multiplied, 278; the permanent character of the Plains, 279; tracts needing irrigation in the East, 279; summing up of the author's views on, 315-6-7. IRON, 242. ITALY (Northern), 171. KANSAS, 25, 26, 167, 249, 261, 264, 289. KANSAS PACIFIC, the railroad, 262. KENNEBEC, the valley of the, 165; the river, 279.