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Show iETHODS OF IRRIGATION vernment Tells now ;o Prepare Land, lishing Sagebrush, Build-ig Build-ig Literals and Distributing Distrib-uting Wator. ,We Guido Furnished for Begin-r cers and Others aB to Cost and ProcesB. A to Tho Tribune. dSHINGTON, Juno 14. The Office Of-fice of Experiment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture, will soon Issue a bul-descrlblng bul-descrlblng methods of preparing: or Irrigation and applying water ps in different sections of the arid of the United States, his bulletin the methods of get-Id get-Id of sagebrush, smoothing: the I, building lateraJs, and distributer distribut-er over fields as developed by perience of farmers In irrigated tf, are brought together and de-1. de-1. The tools and implements re illustrated and the cost of the based upon actual examples in nt States, is given, purpose Is to afford beginners ble guide, both as to the cost of 11 a bringing wild land under cultivation IelarW' irii metncis best su'tc(l to different ie rail V Mils, climates and crops. Tho facta acta nduded In tills bulletin have been rpbr' 'llhered by th0 Irr,eation investiga- infl ft l?ons of tb's oflcc' acting in. co-opcra- orttifi lion with the State experiment stations of'fet iad State engineers' offices, rhkh!1 CSt f Irrl?ntlon- Ipfc Tni! lletin brings out the fact, not ytll understood, that the cost of prc- i wrlRi: land for Irrigation 1b In many lutances greater than the cost of Sirtf balWlng canals and reservoirs. De-id De-id U ailed figures of the cost of checking1 id te'i and show that It varies In certain dls-nxatk dls-nxatk rlcts in California from to ?18.0S ild, m ptr acre. sim $Thl8 Is more than twice Uie cost of the o 52a canal systems in the San Joaquin Itik jilley, California, which is given In 'H report of Hie Census Bureau for rergl Kas Ji.93 per Irrigated acre. "Where - sl :fit preparing of land is contracted for inlr I cost of checking varies from 57.50 tnsak to 120 per acre. The price of preparing icai hud for Hooding is much less but Ih - nktt ?5 pr acre in Wyoming-. Ill j The need of a better understanding bro this particular branch of Irrigation i pactlc Is becoming- more and more j :Imponarit. Reservoirs and canals are I en. .but means to accomplish a purpose. i AM purpose Is to Increase tho pro-'.ducts pro-'.ducts of the soil. The value of tho yn well or reservoir depends upon the usaf tr"RC of iana which it will serve njjrtw the increase in the value of the utita'J Products which the use of water will irate briny about. l But eans of Applying- Water. ask rThe time is coming when the most , mportaut problems connected with lr- Ration will be the best means of ap- '' j pln 'ater and not, as at present, ntsM ' ot- canal and reservoir building-, 'orUMi : About thirty different methods of ap- flying water are now In use. This RTJTT ffJ nt mean that there are thirtv dls- il4ic 1! systems, but includes tho different ZJ f IjrcPaiIn5 1'id by checking, tomparlmcnte, deep and shallow fur- "3 flooding, sprinkling and sub-irrl- Htf Fi The bu,1"n Gives some of the in.' S,o,a seiiIe5 of tC3ls o different ; "hod ,of applying water and the dlf- Jf Mnce in loss of water by evaporation it WnJ Elmllow furrov-'s n 'unt ?nc and one-hair times aa i c?3ttT2 needcd to J"sate an IS hSL f. la?d by floodInK re- 'aES 1,1 fum twelve inches deep. cno atld one-lhlrd times as much J ion-; 'aS reeved to irriKatc in fur- VrcJ lnchGtJ dceP as m furrows JJJijf vae loot deep. tfi tr tV,n? f. one-thir(l of the water Su a madoptIon oC a betler awtem i"3;,1'"1 a larRe increase In the rS SCnWhich collld be Initiated from .1 Daj or reservoirs. iF ' |