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Show MODEL EXHIBITS PROGRESS OF IRRIGATION j ' Jjl DEMONSTRATES PRACTICE LEADING ' THEORY jVfl ODEL farms in miniature as bIiowu at tho Agricultural college in Logan. Tho upper picture is a goneral view irA of the farm, the mountains in the distance, tho canyon, the reservoir dam for the regulation of the flow of irrigation ir-rigation waters and the power house. The lower picture is a moro intimate viow of the foothill section, showing the mill, the lowlands and the canyon. It also shows how a pumping plant was put in to utilizo the spring water in the canal system. The spring is scon in the foreground and tho pumphouse near it. L. M. Winsor of U. A..C. Experiment Ex-periment Station Succeeds With Miniature Farm, i - UNQUESTIONABLY one of the most Interesting- features of the Farmers Roundup at Logan Is tho model irrigation ir-rigation system built by L. M. Winsor Win-sor of tho experiment station staff. Throughout the past week hundreds of farmers havo visited the model room and heard Professor Winsor explain his model, photographs of which are shown herewith. here-with. In constructing his model Mr. Winsor lias not followed tho usual plan of building build-ing an unrealistic model of u supposed Irrigation scheme. lie lias tuken a condition con-dition which actually exists, or a series of actual conditions, In the state of Utah and showed how a programme of Irrigation Irriga-tion reform could be earrled out to correct cor-rect the errors. Picture No. l shows a mill built in the early days at the mouth of a canyon. A natural dam was utilized for tho production produc-tion of power through a water wheel. I Tho water then drops down to the low-! low-! lands. Hero a lowland canal and another second canal JUBt above It take up all the waters that come out of the, canyon. Tho higher lands, which are seen at the left side of Plcturo No. 2 are barren and without water at this time. The lowlands havo been soaked with 'water so long that they become water-logged and practically prac-tically useless. Hence the water from the canyon Is of no use except to run the mill. At this time along comes the Irrigation specialist with his modorn methods, He builds a dam way up In the canyon, impounding im-pounding tho flood waters. A flume from this reservoir runs down to a hydro-elec-trlo power plant which is built near tho mouth of. tho canyon and which can be seen In tho pictures. Thus power is generated gen-erated and the mill la thereafter oporated electrically. This Instantly obviates the necessity of running the water down past the mill to the low, water-logged lands. Now tho expert takes the water from tho tall race of tho power plant and diverts di-verts It Into a new high land canal. This water Is distributed from the high land canal over the bench lands tliat wero formerly for-merly arid and useless. Thus the model farms, with model lateral systems, model farm buildings and a model system of crop rotation spring up. They are seen In picture pic-ture No. 2. The model farm shown in tho picture rcprcsonts a quarter section farm divided into ten-ncro fields. The crop rotation scheme adopted by ProfoSEor Winsor for this farm la a ten-year cycle. The first year the ground Is broken and alfalfa and oats planted. Alfalfa Is grown on this ton-acre piece fur live jcaru and then nlownd under, after being covered with fertilizer. The next or sixth year corn Is planted. Tho seventh year sugar beets aro raised. The elehth year barley Is raised nnd the stubble In tho fall Is covered with fertilizer and plowed under. Tho ninth year potatoes arc produced and the tenth year brings tho system back to onts and a I fa Ha Every single detail, Including road?, farm buildings, telegraph. . telephono and power lines, mountains and the like are all reproduced perfectlv in the model bv Professor Winsor, The model will bo kept for demonstration purposes and Is undoubtedly one of tho finest of tho" kind that has over been built. Mr. Winsor worked on It for six weeks 'prior to the Roundup. |