Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Land Reclamation Policies in the United States
Land reclamation, strictly speaking, includes the bringing into cultivation of all types of unused land, but the term has come to be limited in common practice to the construction of canals and other works necessary to protection from over?ow or the removing of sur plus water from wet lands, or to supplying water to dry lands. In popular usage, land provided with these works is reclaimed, although no steps toward putting into cultivation have been taken.
Without regard to the correctness of this use of the word, the lands referred to do form a separate category, and their reclamation in volves problems peculiar to this class. Their reclamation is beyond the powers of the owner of a single farm and requires community or corporate action of some kind; and this reclamation must take place in advance of settlement, involving the expenditure of large sums before the lands can be put to use. There are small areas of both wet and dry lands in which it is possible to reclaim single farms, but these areas are so limited that they may be disregarded.
The other classes of land available for the expansion of our farm area - forest and cut-over land requiring clearing only, and open pasture and range land - do not possess these characteristics. These farms may be developed without previous preparation and inde pendently of each other.
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