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education and research. He has been an 

 active member of the standing committee 

 on Methods of Teaching Agriculture of 

 the Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations, which 

 has been an- efficient aid to the develop- 

 ment of stronger and better courses in 

 agriculture in our agricultural colleges. 

 He is at present dean of the Graduate 

 School of Agriculture, which recently 

 held its first session at the State Univer- 

 sity at Columbus, Ohio. 



When the first appropriation for irriga- 

 tion investigations was made by Congress, 

 the general supervision of this enterprise 

 was assigned to Dr. True, by Secretary 

 Wilson, inasmuch as the work was to be 

 conducted, in a large measure, in co-oper- 

 ation with the agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations. Dr. True immedi- 

 ately called a conference of the directors 

 of experiment stations and state engineers 

 in the irrigated region. This conference 

 was held at Denver and the plan of opera- 

 tions there presented and discussed was 

 made the basis of the irrigation work of 

 the Office of Experiment Stations, which 

 has since been elaborated and developed 

 under the immediate charge of Prof. El- 

 wood Mead. Dr. True keeps in touch 

 with this and other lines of his broad 

 work by personal visits from time to time 

 to the leading centers of this work in the 

 different states and territories. For this 

 purpose he spent some time in California 

 in May of the present year. 



An Article by 

 Jude Klnney. 



We anticipate being able, 

 a j itt j e ] ater ODj to present 



to our readers an article from the pen of 

 Judge Clesson S. Kinney, of Salt Lake 

 City, Utah, dealing with the effect irriga- 

 tion has had upon modern civilization. 

 As Judge Kinney is standard authoritj 

 on prehistoric and modern irrigation the 

 article in question will be both- interesting 

 and valuable. Judge Kinney is at pre- 

 sent engaged in preparing another work. 



"Up to" William E. Smythe, author of 



the States. "The Conquest ef Arid Ame- 

 rica," etc., and formerly editor of the 

 IRRIGATION AGE, conducts a department 

 in "Out West," formerly "The Land of 

 Sunshine," the August number of which 

 contained an excellent article entitled 

 "The Battle of the States." This gives 

 an outline of what has been accomplished 

 for the cause of irrigation since the move- 

 ment began twelve years ago, culminating 

 in the substantial result achieved by the 

 passage of the Newland's Act. Lack of 

 space forbids us quoting as copiously as 

 we would like from this very interesting 

 article, but we give a few extracts from it: 



"The nation has decided to make the 

 people's heritage available for the people's 

 use. * * * * * Without taking 

 time to detail the process by which a re- 

 volution was wrought in public sentiment, 

 it is well worth while to note how it has 

 carried us in precisely the opposite direc- 

 tion to that in which we were traveling 

 twelve years ago. and even many years 

 later. The legislation actually enacted in 

 June, 1902, reverses all the tendencies 

 which marked our former irrigation de- 

 velopment. It puts public works in place 

 of private works and public enterprise in 

 place of private speculation." 



Regarding the responsibility which 

 rests upon the States it is said that the 

 President in his message concerning the 

 Newland's Act "declared that the several 

 states should receive national assistance 

 'only as they showed themselves fit to re- 

 ceive it. '' Such states as are fit, the 

 article claims, are "only such as can guar- 

 antee that when the Nation shall have 

 stored the water in the mountains and 

 turned it into the common flood of the 

 streams at the time of need, the water so 

 obtained shall be delivered to the settlers 

 for whom it was intended. * 

 In a word, the success of our new National 

 policy hangs upon the outcome of water 



