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Show iniUQATION IN UTAH. Ileforin Needed In Our Trescnt Jleth. ods There Is Too Much Waste, IMItor 1 rlhune -Tho people of I tah nre now talking irrigation, tho subject Is before theni and all because Oov Wells has lulled n eoiivrnlten lo meet lu Halt Lake city tho jeth of this month to consider tho question of llovernmeut aid to Irrigation In the arid West, that the lesourees whlih prlvilo capital rail to develop inn) bo utilised by the help of the linv eminent. This move Is on tho right line, and 1 hnpo to see every county In the Btato represented hs men of experience In Irrigation nnd who kno our needs ami can show conclusive. I) why Congiess should make, an apprn-prlatlon apprn-prlatlon to aid Irrigation t shall licit at this lime express m l.leus on this subject, sub-ject, but while the farmer Is looking tor newspaper ankles on Irrigation while the intllonnl eiucslton Is hetoio us and the needs or the Irrigated part or the t'nlled Htales Is being dlsi ussed, und the results to ho ncoiupTlelioil aro being piintcd In such glowing .olors Is a Kood lime tn eall atteutlm to Ihn fuults nf our present pres-ent Irrlguilon slem tie slipshod 1111 111. ..Is of anpltlnf, w it.r to the land and the waste oecaslon.il thereb) Our canals, or elltchcs. are not, as t rule constructed to nirrv water In the most eeonoml.nl wuy and wllh the least loss b .vuporatlon and seepage I am sure that with can lis proper!) constructed and Intelligent distribution nnt use of tho waters now actual!) used lor Irrlgitlon the duty would bo Increased ut least r ler tent. It seems that the average I'tali Irrl K'!!ior. V'tl "follow out a plan which will get him the most water Instead of stud)lng .1 way to get tho est results b npplvlng just the right amount of watir when tho plant needs It tn pro. mote thn best growth lu Millard conn t) parlkulirl) Inimiors use too 111111 h water-when thev can get It. they hnvo failed to learn the neids of the dllttrent plants and the roper umount of water to appl) to produce the best results, and I venture thn assertion that there Is more, loss to crops b over-Irrigation than b) lack of water on ihe ne reuge Irrigated Irri-gated 1 hive often asked farmers who llvo along thn foothill, In the old settled parts or I ids county, wh) they did not r ;l lucerne seed which Is acknowledged acknowl-edged to b. tho most profitable crop raised In I tali, and the) titcd to toll me Our land Is not adapted to the growth or seed we can raise hlg ernna or hay but we cannot raise seeel along the foothills, ns ou do down In the vsl-!'" vsl-!'" . . r'," impression was eiionootis, but ,t took a ctrmikht to prove 11 wlieii theie was not w Her enoiiKh to rulsi ; f:"!or'l, 'l-'iioumj'triii''i ,',? p"? II re liv Miipl be the I umi I I 1 L e w t 1 Ul 1 t 1 w II 'm . ' . ,"',,' ' I I j w is ma l"ir j 1 1 ,,. lM11 ,, l( money f oni his laul t! at bo would have made hud then b en w it r enough lo raise u Lrop of h,i. One mirth tho quantity of water req dred to produce a trop or Imerno hay will produie a good crop of seed. Tho fnlluto to produce a trop on most uny kind of land, where vou have a good water supply. Is usually the fa ill of the Irrigator, and more often rrom the use or too miiih water than from any other cause II won't do to turn wuia on the land and expect It to do the work The dltehea musl lie so lonstrutted that the wntrr tan he applied quickly and cvenl) distributed The beaut) of furmlng by Irrigation Is the fact that the Irrigator call glvti lo each crop Jut the amount or molsturo it needs, and at the tlmo when Ihe application will pro lu.e tho best growth The average farmer does not consider tlds part of the Irrigation problem, nor does he seem to understand that It Is Just as necessary tn get the vmer nff tho land at the proper tlmo as It Is to get It on, The llrst thing which uhould b consld-ered consld-ered by tho Irrigator Is, How little water ean 1 turn on and give 10 this crop tho proper amount of molsturo to produce the best growth? No land will proluee Clops tor a series of ears successfully without proper draltuge and the least water used, the less surplus there Is to gel rid of b) some sort of drainage cither natural or iirtlttcla! Ill Illinois, Iowa Missouri and other Slates, are thousands or acres of land which were at one lime worthless, now made valuable b) 11 drainage sstem costing from JIO to J20 per arre and while the farmers In these Slates hive been nnklng worthless land valuable by drainage, many farmers In our State have been making valuable land worthless worth-less by uverdrrlsntioti Proper application of the water now used In t tali for irrigation would Increase In-crease tho )leld of our iropo at least Ti ler cent, and the line! Instead of becoming be-coming sour nnd marsh) with the water table so near the surface as to Injurs plant growth, would be getting lietter onch )enr 'Ihe growth rodttclng clement cle-ment In wnter Intelllgenll) applied to land Is the best or fertilizers. I cannot understand why tho farmers of I'tnh give so llttlo thought to tho question, llow much water Is needed to get Ihe best returns from a ecrtuln crop"-Oreelev crop"-Oreelev Colo Is thn greilest liotnto-growlng liotnto-growlng sei lion of tho world and more prollt Is realised per aero at Oreelev from thn grotvlng of 'sprouts" than rroin any other section nf the countr), becmso the riWnff of potatoes thero his been reduced to a science, anel the methods now so successfully emploved wero loomed by experience Tell tho aveisgo farmer In Utah to plint potatoes when tho ground Is damp and then keep the water off until the vine Is in bloom, ind he wnuld think one eras), still, that Is tho wa tho successful potato-grower waters his crop at Orceley. I could quote many Instances of tho evil resulting from 'Cio much water" In Utah, hut spaco forbids and Ihe object of this nrtlclo Is to awaken the farmer to theWnct that he Is not making tho money ort his Imd that he should get In a country coun-try so ravorablo 10 tho growth of all crops, as In Utah. B(WT UNg |