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Show STUDENTS DO PRACTICAL WORK The newly organized department of irrigation and drainage at the Agricultural Ag-ricultural college is convinced that Utah will never obtain the highest use of its water supply without training train-ing men to take part in the management manage-ment and operation of its irrigation systems. It is now attempting to supply part of the neccesBary training train-ing in a course in irrigation management manage-ment and as part of this course the students have been asked to conduct certain field investigations in con-, nection with the operations of the various Cache county canal companies. compa-nies. Each student has been assigned assign-ed a company to work with and will go into the fields in company with the officers of the canal to determine the numbers of acres irrigated, the amount of water used, the cost per acre of dividing the water to the various var-ious users, the best methods of keeping keep-ing canals clean as yet adopted in Cache county, the methods of charg ing farmers for the use of water, modes of collecting fees and so on. Professor O. W. Israelson in discussing dis-cussing this new type of work said: "I believe this type of instruction will not only enable the student to obtain a clear insight into the present pres-ent methods of operation of canals but will also giv.e him a stimulus to study further these questions and to propose new and better methods which will make possible the extension exten-sion of our irrigated area with our present water supply." The irrigators of the state, and especially Cache county will un-doubtedlr un-doubtedlr watch with interest the progress of this new type of irrigation irri-gation instruction. |