Show w t r Our wk Weekly w Washington Letter I. I W 44 9 4 d a 4 lOST I III 1 OI- OI m I Ir r m NI AND WILL UK m CONTINUED July Post Post Postmaster master General yew New announces that the conference t conference of Postoffice Postoffice Post Post- office department officials and the tho rank and file life of postal employees in every section of the United States wil be continued during the tho coming year These conferences were Inaugurated inaugurated In October 1922 as an ex ex- ex It has been a very success success- successful fu ful innovation By Dy September this year practically practically ally every state will have ave held geld such sucha a II conference at which administrators of the Postoffice department tell the assembled the policies of the service and in turn are told by bythe bythe bytho the tho employees how the service may maybe maybe maybe be improved for the tho benefit of the employee and the public One of the features of these conferences Is II the open forum in which postal employees employees em em- put straight questions to the department officials and get straight answers As a result of these conference over postal employees have come in personal contact with officials als ale of ot the department In addition the postal officials take advantage of the conferences to meet local business business busi busl ness DeBS men particularly those who are large users of ot th the malls U V. V S. S FARI FARM EXTENSION WORK REACHED OVER During the year of ot 1922 over It 14 farmers attended agricultural agricultural 1 tural extension meetings in the Jutted States and more than HO farmers attended agricultural extension schools and short courses conducted by the government c and and state agricultural college agents POSTAL RECEIPTS FOR YEAR LARGEST INCREASE ON RECORD During the fiscal year year Just ended June 30 last the department department depart depart- men ment t. t en enjoyed joyed the largest argest Increase in postal receipts ever recorded for a single year The percentage of gain for the BO 60 designed cities for the entire entire entire en en- tire year was 1216 per cent over the previous year It is ls estimated the entire postal revenue for the fiscal year 1923 will wall reach as with for tor forthe forthe the year Ich ended June 30 1922 DAIRY INTERESTS TO BE GIVEN REPORTING SERVICE In response to a demand from the dairy Interests the theU U S. S Department of Agriculture Is Inaugurating a special special cial dairy reporting service which will furnish monthly statistics on current milk production prices stocks and changes In dairy herds the service e has been planned and isto Isto is isto to be tried out In an experimental way In New England states New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Wisconsin FAn FARM J MARKET QUOTATIONS TO BE HANDLED PROMPTLY Market quotations subject to sudden sud sud- dep den fluctuations the value of which would be destroyed if delayed In the mails malls will be promptly handled in post offices even though mailed Under under under un un- der third class cover according to to instructions issued to postmasters by Postmaster General New The procedure procedure pro pro- is designed to bring farmers and produce raisers in closer touch with rural markets so as to assist them in timing the movement of ot their crops FIVE E DIG BIG RECLAMATION M. M TION PROJECTS ON INDIAN LANDS L. The Indian Bureau Dureau of ot the Department Department Depart Depart- ment of the announces that acres of ot land on Indian re reservations reservations ro- ro have been reclaimed by irrigation projects and are now being cultivated and additional acres are capable of reclamation from irrigation projects now exist exist- ing Projects completed thus far cost and their annual operating maintenance cost annually The five largest Irrigation ir irrigation Ir- Ir projects on Indian reservations reservations reserva reserva- are located on the Klamath reservation in Oregon the Yakima reservation In Washington Fort Peck and Flat Head reservations In Montana and the Colorado river reservation in ln Arizona Nf NEARLY GOVERNMENT ON OS RETIRED LIST There are now employees of the federal government drawing annuities according to the latest figures compiled complied by the t of the Interior This Is the larg number Dumber since the passage of th the th Retirement Act by Con Congress I In I 1920 The total applicants and claims for tor annuities under the Retirement Re Re- Act with the Interior Do Do- amount to o of which have been rejected and dismissed for various reasons Th The number of claims pending for action ac ac- ac tion on Jane 30 1923 is |