Show S IMPROVED VED IRRIGATION ON r In s southern California where water under the i p f sun is quickly evaporated th the people long ago to substitute for ditches In that J began pipes op open n Way y they estimate they save 33 3 1 per cent k j. j water which otherwise would be lost in either seep seep- r. r S 7 i age ge or 01 by br evaporation In Colorado they have improved improved im im- im- im proved on this They are concreting their canals I and use pipes in the laterals They make the pipe p. p on oh the ground and the factory produces 8 S 12 and nd f i lS inch 18 inch pipe at the rate of 1500 feet every day clay It Itis is laid aid and covered as soon as made They have larger pipes fo for the thc main canals made up to fo forty forty- i two Q inches in diameter this size carr carrying ing two fifty I ri ibi ic feet of water per second or enough to irrigate t. t gate at acres acres and this this this' gre great t pipe costs only per pel foot covered in the ground Beside th the great saving of water there is no other loss lossi i- i through breakage or ditches and even eyen over the 1 pipe pip the ground is plowed and cultivated It certainly is a good invention if the facilities in other I I p places aces are such that it is possible to make the pipe I |