Show uncle sam makes farms I 1 for american farmers the fa farmers of the united S states tates will be interested in ill an 1111 I 1 article lately published over tile the signature of 0 J 1 I statistician of tile the united states state s reclamation service showing the vastness of the government irrigation projects now being built under the provisions of the national reclamation act for the purpose of making new fart farms s for thy thu rapidly growing number of american farmers mr blanchard in his article enumerates a long list of projects actually under construction and another I 1 list held in ill abeyance waiting awaiting the flin time when tile the condition of tile the reclamation la funi fund will permit their coll construction st ruction he st allows vs that the twenty five projects project i n i nv v under construction when fully fly developed will add to to the crop producing area of tile the united states acres 0 or r I 1 a t I 1 e cultivated area equal to the total acre affe devoted to agricultural crops in ill connecticut new hampshire massachusetts and florida three of these twenty five projects are practically com coin plated six more will be in ill ser vice this summer work is progressing on oil all of them thein and their early comp completion lotion may be considered absolutely sure thirteen additional projects bield in ill abeyance have avit even greater area than those now under construction and luiere we ae in the west many ill enort 0 r e I 1 millions of acres with W water it t 1 avail available ablo for irrigation ii a grott gron neld field for further abric agric agricultural development 01 oiin olour of our most valuable resources in ill view of tile rapid increase iu in population and the abe necessity oi of increase of agricultural 1 production the national reclamation act provides thu that nt moneys received from sales saleh of public lands in ill certain West western erti states all ana territories shall be placed in a revolving fund that is being used to build irrigation systems in the lie state which provide it the law wisely pro provides viles for the return of the money to the national treasury by the acho lands benefited when i it t becomes a vai liable for use in further irrigation construction the fhe aldi addition tion of if these millions or of acres to the agricultural lands of if the he country is is of inter e ext et t not alone to the wet but 0 the entire united states be C cue cu ill e nf if the iiii importance of continued agricultural ex expansion ancion it is of interest to the farmers it gives ives to their S sons ons i an opportunity of obtaining new lands it IL is of interest to tile the business men because it means opportunities i for new bus business it is of afi interest to 0 manufacturers because it means a new demand for thel their r products the nie enactment of the lie low law bluder which tins this great reclamation ill work is id going on is very 11 largely rg ly lue due to the national I 1 irrigation congress tile the fifteenth session of which will be held in ill S sacramento california sept 9 2 2 7 next this promises to be one of the moat witoly widely represented congresses ever held in ill this coul country itry both because f tile widespread interest in ill talis new national irrigation policy and because of the widespread interest in ill national forestry which takes equal prominence in tile the annual ine meeting abing of this body |