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Show UNITED STATES IS LEADER IN BIG IRRIGATION WORK WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. Although virtually the lateat country to adopt tho policy of irrigation on Its arid lands, the United Statea today ia said to be teaching the world the beet ggamethod of reclaiming unproductive aoil. In a statement issued today by the in- r tenor department Secretary Fisher comments on this feature of the irrigation irriga-tion work undertaken by the government. govern-ment. "It is sarions to note," said the secretary, "that from the other countries coun-tries in which irrigation has been prac-Wryd prac-Wryd successfully for hundreds and even thousanda of years, experts are coming to the United States, tke lateat of all . countries to take up irrigation, in order to study tke system which has been developed by American geulua and ingenuity and to learn the funds-mentals funds-mentals 9f the effective and economic handling of such work, tke standards for which have been developed by oar own government." The investigatore, the secretary added, have come not only from the Mediterranean countries, but from South Africa, Australia, ladia aad South America. |