Show the reclamation record under authority of the act of congress bf juno tin rec service one of the bureaus of the interior department is charged with the survey construction and operation of irrigation works in the and states in connection with this work the service publisher monthly the reclamation record during alie birly the work the record is restricted mainly to the formal report to the secretary on the progress of work on alie various projects with a of the principal contracts executed specifications ficat ions issued and a few other matters of a like nature secretary lane a few months after taking charge of the interior department determined to make the reclamation record a medium of communication between alie interior department and the users to accomplish this lie directed that it should be made a more popular publication embodying the best thought obtainable upon the problems of ane irrigation farmer the reclamation commission in hearty accord with this ed a resolution providing for the enlargement lar gement of the scope and purpose of the record to include matter of more general interest to alie water users and to subordinate the engineering features to the farming and irrigation activities in addition it was decided to send the record free of charge to all water users on reclamation projects who expressed a desire to have it about water users now receive the reclamation record regularly and numerous mum erous requests from others to have their names paced on the mailing list are coming in under the new the record is developing rapidly into a useful and instructive periodical for farmers and its slogan is better business better fanning better living each month it contains an article on better farming by the practical firmer of the commission I 1 D odonnell of billings montana supplemented with numerous articles on the same subject by other well known agricultural experts in addition there is a section devoted to current comments from the projects another on common birds around the farm au by mr 0 donnell another on rural credit by an expert in the rural organization service of ohp of agriculture one on activities of tho water users associations largely written by officials of the associations lineous section devoted to news items and to interesting articles by project employees a legal section under the of the chief counsel of the reclamation service an open form where the water users can make their although complaints are largely a thing of the past and finally the monthly progress reports and other items of interest chiefly to the held employ u othe service Plina havo recently been consummated to anke the record even more interesting by including eccli month articles by officials of the forest service on tree planting and the moat bUl table trees to bo grown on the various projects and by officials of the state agricultural experiment stations on their work in its relation to alie water users that the record is is more than indicated indi cited by alie many letten rul ved bv reel iti ution service from alie w itar iscra anyone in the demot eat degree interested in a reclamation project should mike arrangements with alie reclamation service washington D to receive the reclamation record alie tion prim of winch to others than water users on the projects is only 50 cants a year |