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Show Devoted VOL. to tne Progress II. Agriculture in tfje Qveai Uintc.l? Basin VERNAL, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, .JUNE, Vii:. Experiment Farm To Be Big Help G. Peppard Seed Company, Vernal, Utah. Now that our dream of an experiment station in our great Uintah Basin has become a reality, in a measure; at least a splendid beginning, how do we feel about u? Do we fully sense the necessity for it and do we expect to cooperate with it in every way so its possibilities may be fully realized? Everyone is more or less familiar with the work done by our State experiment station at Logan, and there is no part of the state which has not received a great deal of good from its extension department. However, this extension department is only here today and gone tomorrow. It is only an occasional visit, and, however much good it may do on these occasions, it is not permanently with us and can- not solve many of the problems which we have and will continue to be confronted with so long as we continue to farm in the Uintah Basin. Being isolated as we are from the rest of the state, we must either produce a product superior to that of other parts or be limited in our production to the needs of the Basin, excepting, however, commodities NO. Sy The ideal distributing system for irrigation water would permit the farmer to have water at any time in any amount he might need. This would require an unfailing source :f supply and a canal system of such capacity that the demands of all water users could be met simultaneously. j Conditions in the Uintah Basin are such that the first of these requirements cannot be met for more than a part of each irrigation season. for facilities Storage impounding a supply of water sufficient for the entire season would provide the unfailing source of supply but the topography of the country lying above the irrigated lands is such that to build reservoirs of sufficient capacity to store an entire seasons supply would be prohibitive in cost. The best that can be hoped for along this line is to develop such reservoir capacity as can be developed at a reasonable cost and use the water thus impounded to eke out the normal flow of the streams during early spring and late summer when the normal flow is always far less than The economic imposthe demand. the first reof providing sibility ideal an irrigation sysquirement of tem is quite evident. This brings us to a consideration of the second requirement; a canal of such capacity that the demands of all water users could be met sima Let us consider ultaneously. tract of land eight thousand acres which are sufficiently high priced as to stand the cost of transportation from here to the railroad points, and return a net profit sufficient to justify the raising of them. We can compete successfully with our neighbors in any line of agriculture common to the state of Utah but we have only launched out on but very few crops which we can export to a profit. Alfalfa and clover seed are possibly the in extent. Taking the average only ones up to date which have water user as eigheach of holding of source developed a very great be on hundred would acres there Alfalfa seed promises to ty income. Assumwater users on this tract. an want irrigating that each would (Continued on Page 2.) ing stream of three second feet (Column One) (many would want a larger head) that all would want water at and ON BETTER BOOK HAND same time, three hundred secFEEDING OF LIVESTOCK the ond feet would be required and a Better Feeding ditch of that capacity would be necA hand book on If however, these water has been issued by essary. of Livestock satisfied with a ditch of were users the U. S. department of agriculture size that such by being used conand a copy should be in the hands of every Uintah Basin farmer be- tinuously throughout the irrigating sufficient cause of its valuable information season it would deliver thousand entire the for eight water and which is written in a way that of one hundred and it is unnecessary to wade through acres, a ditch would a lot of unimportant matter to find fourteen second feet capacity is two ditch The suffice. larger the information desired. the of size the one-ha- lf time and The handbook, too, is of pocket to fair hut is size which is a new departure and smaller one and it and two cost would it a very convenient one to the busy assume that as much to build. farmer as it makes a far more com- one-ha- cost times too would of maintenance The circupact booklet than the larger so that ditch on the larger lars they have hitherto published. be more cost would more be far added Get your copy from your farm ag- its that benefits additional the than ent or by sending to the Utah Agrit. from derived icultural. college Logan Utah, o1 the could possibly be that for economic then find We Department of Agriculture, Wash- reasons we cannot have an ideal irHandA for D. C., asking ington, are compelled to book for Better Feeding of Live- rigation system but size that they such of miscellaneous circular. No, use ditchessufficient water for our stock, 12. You will be well repaid for will carry Hands only if used continuously and trouble. your lf Rules on Beekeeping for Importers of Bees N. W. IRSFELD, Project Engineer, Uintah Basin Project, i M t Utah 1, that the flow for a considerable part of the year an ill be less than the demand. This ieaves us with the problem of distrib iting the water, under conditions uposed economically, in such a any that each acre will get its share of the available supply. One way of doing this would be to determine the part of the entire flow of each acre is entitled and then permit a coutiniuus stream proportional in size to the acres contained in it, to flow onto each tract. of a second foot per acre would be the maximum, that being the amount each acre would be entitled to when the duty was seventy acres to the second fiot and the flow' would vary from that down to one two hundredth of a second foot per acre as the duty varied during the season. During tlie season of 1924 when there was not sufficient flow in the streams to keep even the primary water rights cn duty, the flow per acre dropped as low as one three hun- dredtli of a second foot. Let us pause here and consider the reason for having a variable Many are puzzled as to why duty. since the law permits a maximum of one second foot for diversion seventy acres, it is necessary to have is The reason a variable duty. this: the law also provides that not to exeted three acre feet of water per acre may be diverted each year. Suppose that the duty was kept at one second foot for seventy acres from Aptil first to September 30th. One second foot of water flowing for 24 horn's hours equals two acre feet From April 1st to Sepof water. ; Onc-seventie- th tember 30th there are one hundred eighty-thre- e clays of twenty-fou- r hours each and a second foot of water flowing for that length of time would amount to three hunIf all this acre feet. dred sixty-si- x was applied to seventy acres there acre would be five and feet of water for each acre or two acre feet in excess of and In the amount allowed by law. amount to this avoid rder exceeding the duty is varied in such a manner that the flow during the entire season will not exceed three acre feet. The duty is made high early in tlie season when there is less demand for water and little Avater is in the streams and is gradually lowered until it reaches seventy acres per second foot during late May and early June w'hen the need is greatest and is gradually raised again as the demand lessens and the flow in the streams decreases. We will go baca again to the problem of distributing the water two-tent- twc-leni- hs hs ( (Continued on page 4.) K'nMinn In ;. State Apiarist Gives THE DISTRIBUTION OF IRRIGATION WATER (By GEORGE W. CAHOON,) Fieldman for J. &. Development o? D. II. Hillman, state apiarist, calls attention to importers of bees into Utah to two laws. One of these is the Golden Rule. The other a rule made by the state board of agriculture, under authority from the state Whether there is any legislature. connection between the two, other Hum the fact that both afreet particularly importers of bees, is not definitely stated in a letter sent by to Mr. Powell of Riverside, Calif., president of the association of Riverside Mr. Hillman Bee-Keepe- rs county. Most of those enterprising apiarists who make their bees do double service, employing their time all summer in Utah culling honey from the Utah alfalfa and wTiite clover, only to work all winter as wll amid the bloom of southern California, use the Riverside section as their winter range, so to speak. For this reason Mr. Hilman calls the two law's to the attention of the Riverside man, though lie does not specify whether the man ma.de law supports the other, 'Cr vice versa. e law was adopted The by the state board of agriculture at its last meeting, and u reads, in man-mad- part: Must Notify B,oard. Every person who imports bees or combs or used hives containing combs but no bees into Utah must immediately notify the board of agriculture 'Of the fact, stating where such bees or combs are located. It is provided that the commission, must at once have the imported bees examined by the state inspector o apiaries and if the visiting bees are found to be infected by American foul brood or other infectious disease injurious to bee life in its various stages, all colonies and combs found to be diseased shall be deSpecial stroyed by the inspector. regulations are provided covering importation of queen bees. Having quoted this regulation, Mr. Hillman, in his letter to Mr. l'cwell, continues: We also have a moral law that was adopted by our Utah State Bee keepers association as a protection to resident beekeepers who already have yards established. It is in to follow the Golden Rule in locating an apiary. Avoid Crowding That is, avoid crowding tro close to locations that are already ostib-- 1 lished. A rad, us of at least three miles should be adhered to when 'placing a ard of bees in a a alfalfa district. There arc1 many good et-fe- i ) i ot We locations unofcupfd in U'nb nr,vont anyone do not desire to from occupying good boo territory, but we do want tlnm to I'M ah that it will not interfere with apiar-- 1 ies that have been established for years, thereby lesson irg the honey crop for both parties. Mr Hillman off. vs m furni.--h fn- formation as to unoccupied territory. |