Excerpts: 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 overflow or the removing of surplus 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. In this discussion “reclamation” is used in the popular sense, as applying only to the preparing of wet and overflowed land and of dry land, for use for agriculture. This bulletin comprises a discussion of the reclamation policies of the United States, both National and State. Our past and present land reclamation policies are presented as a basis for the discussion of future policies.