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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



AMERICAN 



RECLAMATION 



FEDERATION 



(Incorporated Not for Profit) 



WITH WHICH IS MERGED 



The Chicago Irrigation Association 



AND 



The American Irrigation Federation 



Section 2. The American Reclamation Federation is 

 organized for the promotion and encouragement of the 

 irrigation, reclamation, drainage, colonization and develop- 

 ment of land within the United States of America, and to 

 facilitate conference and deliberation among the people of 

 the country concerning such reclamation and related in- 

 terests, especially to promote agreement and con- 

 certed action among those organizations interested in the 

 conservation and proper utilization of our natural re- 

 sources to the end that united efforts may be towards 

 agreed upon ultimate results. 



THE OFFICERS OF THE FEDERATION ARE: 



EDMUND T. PERKINS, President 

 ISHAM RANDOLPH, Vice-President 

 D. H. ANDERSON, Secretary 

 W. F. VAN BUSKIRK, Treasurer 



DIRECTORS : 



EDMUND T. PERKINS, President Edmund T. Perkins 



Engineering Co. 

 HENRY C. WOOD, Wood & Lounsbury, Attorneys-at- 



Law. 



D. H. ANDERSON, Publisher "Irrigation Age" 

 W. L. PARK, Vice-President, Illinois Central R. R. 

 FRANK B. KNIGHT, Chicago Manager, Lidgerwood 



Manufacturing Co. 

 WALTER E. MILLER, Vice-President, Fairbanks, Morse 



&Co. 



CHARLES J. VOPICKA, President, Atlas Brewing Co. 

 W. B. BOGERT, Chicago Board of Trade. 

 W. F. VAN BUSKIRK, Vice-President, Standard Trust 



& Savings Bank 



JOHN D. HIBBARD, President, North American Secur- 

 ities Co. 



ISHAM RANDOLPH, Consulting Engineer 

 JAMES A. McLANE, James A. McLane & Co. 

 RICHARD S. THAIN, Lewiston Land & Water Co. 

 C. B. SCHMIDT, Ind. Com'r., Rock Island Lines. 

 CLAYTON MARK, Vice-President, National Malleable 



Castings Co. 

 FRANCIS M. LANE, Editor, Nat'l Land & Irrigation 



Journal. 



Organizations and individuals interested in 

 reclamation are invited to become members. 

 Detailed information concerning initiation fees 

 and dues will be furnished upon application to the 

 secretary. Address 



D. H. Anderson, Secretary 



30 North Dearborn St., 



Chicago, 111. 



TITANIUM AND ALLOYS OF 



STEEL. 



Much experimenting with various alloys of steel has been caniul 

 in by railroads and rolling-mill operators to produce a rail that will 

 give more satisfactory service than the ordinary rail now in use. One 

 f the principal metals used in these experiments is titanium. More 

 han 250,000 long tons of rails were rolled in 1910 from steel to which 

 erro-titanium had been added. More than 150,000 tons of steel rails 

 i which nickel or nickel and chromium were used as alloy were also 

 lade during 1910. and experiments \\vre made with about 80,000 tons 

 f steel rails in which chromium, manganese, vanadium and other metals 

 ,'ere used. Certain steel makers are now advertising titanium steel, 

 laiming that it effects the removal of gases and impurities and thus 

 reatly increases the good quality of the steel. 



RAPID DEVELOPMENT IN AGRICULTURE. 



To stimulate a more widespread interest in the study 

 of agriculture throughout the United States, Secretary of 

 Agriculture Wilson has begun a campaign of publicity. Al- 

 ready the department has sent out a great deal of literature 

 bearing on the subject in a general way. Its efforts in the 

 future will be concentrated, so as to actively interest the 

 farmers through a series of practical demonstrations con- 

 ducted at central stations. Lectures at the various colleges 

 will also be given at certain times in the year, to which all 

 those interested in fanning will be invited. 



The American system of agricultural education has been 

 highly developed. It includes a number of different classes 

 of institutions which provide all grades of instruction, from 

 graduate courses leading to the doctor's degree to nature 

 study courses in the kindergarten and primary schools. The 

 secondary and elementary instruction is of comparatively 

 recent development, but is becoming an important faetor in 

 American education. The graduate and collegiate courses, 

 on the other hand, are well established and take rank with 

 the best agricultural courses in the older universities and col- 

 leges in Europe. The institutions for instruction and re- 

 search in agriculture are brought together to constitute a 

 national system of higher education through the Association 



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