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Show CLOSER CO-OPERATION. Object of Invest icja 1 ons of Dr. For-tier For-tier of th Department of Aoriculture. Dr. S Fortier, formerly irrigation engineer at 'he State university, and row chief of Irrigation Investigations of experiment rtations of tho United States department of agriculture, who has spent thp la.it few days .in Salt Lake in company with W. W. McLaughlin, Mc-Laughlin, the state representative, loft last night for Hoise, Ida. Dr. Forlitr is making investigations of the manv irrigation project and .a working to secure closer cooperation of the stale Irrigation officials ar.d private irrigators with the government govern-ment in the interests of this important import-ant factor of farm l.fe, aud .s collecting collect-ing statistics (or publication foi the benefit of eastern people, so many of whom are settling annually in the districts dis-tricts .f Western irrigation system.-. "We hf'pe lo gain in any good re : ulta from our work,"' said Dr. Fortier csterday. ,:Vo are goipg to try to save 40 per cent of the water in irrigation irri-gation ditches, aud we bopo to make It possible lor farmers to get the necessary nec-essary supply of water at tho right time aad in the right manner. In the canal systems we have been investigating investi-gating -e find that within a comparatively compara-tively short d. fiance "0 per cent of the wafer pb'.ch p.iKgp-j ihrouch .the headgates is lost." : |