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Show JROM FROM FRAM THE COUNTY CDUNlY CDUNlYAGR'L COUNTYAGR'L AGR'L AGRL ' AGENTWith AGENT With an abundance of feed grains grainsand grainsand grainsand and a favorable feed egg price pricerelationship pricerelationship pricerelationship relationship relationshiphlch which \\hlch hlch \ \ have encouraged encouragedliberal encouragedliberal encouragedliberal liberal feeding feedmg egg production prod action ctlOn in inAp1l1 inApril inApiil Ap1l1 April is at its highest level since since1930 1930 notwithstanding not\V1thstanding not V1thstanding \ a rather low lowleel lowlevel lowlei le\el le el level \ el in chicken numbers a lecent recent lecentreport recentreport lecentreport report from the crop reportmg reporting reportmgboard reportingboard reportingboard board of the federal bureau of agll agii agllcultural agiicultural agilcultural cultural economics showsDuring shows sho\\s sho s \ During 1938 the Federal Land LandB"lnk LandBank LandBink B"lnk Blnk Bank " of Berkele Berkeley Berkele3 } and the Federal FederalFarm FederalFarm FederalFarm Farm Mortgage corporation assisted assisted172 172 Utah farmers in purchasing purchasingfarms purchasingfarms farms the annual report shows showsTntal showsTntal showsTotal Tntal financing in m 1938 reached reached$298222 reached298222 $298222 298222 $ of \ which hlch $21 21 $21922 21922 $ 922 was for forpurchasing forpurchasing forpurchasing purchasing farms and $276200 276200 $ was wasfor \ wasfor as asfor for farms sold on long term pur purchase purchase purchass chase contractsProfessor contracts Professor Alma Es Esplm Esplin hn head of ofthe ofthe the sheep husbandry depal depaitment department tment of ofthe ofthe ofthe the Utah State Agricultural col1ege college col1egevblted collegevisited collegeviblted vblted visited the Grand and San Juan Juancounties Juancounties counties the fore part of the week weekasslstmg weekassisting weekassisting asslstmg assisting asslstmgHth \ with \Hth Hth sheep management managementploblems managementprobleins managementpioblems ploblems probleins and attending the .001 001 wool woolgrading . woolgrading .001grading grading andelghmg and \ weighing \\elghmg elghmg demonstra demonstratlOn demonstrairon demonstration tlOn iron at the Chailes Challes Charles Redd demon demonstraHon demonstration demonstration straHon stration station statton on Tuesday and andWednesda andWednesday andWednesday andWednesdayWafer Wednesda Wednesday WednesdayWater - " Wafer "att'r attr Water ' Should be Conser- Conser ConservedAlthough Consened Consercd Conserved ConsenedAlthough - . cd cdAlthough Although the pendingater pending \\ater ater water watershortage \ watershortage atershortage shortage in Utah this iear sear ear is not notnearly notnearly notnearly nearly so senous sel10US serious as it \ was \ as in m 1934 1934calef111 1934careful 1934caieful calef111 careful conservation of the suppliesis supphesIS supphes supplies IS justified and all water users usersshould usersshould usersshould should begin begm at once to make plans plansfor plansfor plansfor for the most economical use of ofater ofwater ofwater \\ater ater water \ this season advises GeoigeD GeolgeD GeorgeD Geolge George D CI Glide Clyde de irrigation engineer of the theUtah theUtah theUtah Utah Agrcutural exeplrentotatlOn exepirent exeplrent exeprrent otatlOn Matron "tationin tationin otatlOnm Matronin " m in a ree rec nt leport report of snow surveys surveysand surveysand surveysand and andater water \\ater ater \ supply forecastsDitches forecastsDitches forecasts forecastsDitches Ditches and canals should be becleaned becleaned becleaned cleaned early so that the early earlyflo earlyfib earlyflo flo fib v may be fully utilized Leaky Leakyheadgates Leakyheadgates Leakyheadgates headgates should be repaired Pro Profe Profe Profe fe SO sor ! Clyde adVIsesDue advisesDue advises advisesDue Due to absence of snow no\\ no noon \ on low lowel lowel lowel el vaticns vatrcns of all watersheds of the thestate thestate thestate state uru-ually uru ually upuoually uru ' - ually highater high \ water \\ater ater \ dur durmg durmg during mg the spring runoff is not to be beexpected beexpected beexpected expected However Hov.evrr Hovevrr . high runcR rune-ff rune ff runofff - for fora fora fora a few days is possible it if a corn com ccm bination bmatlOn brnation of tem1 temperature = erature and spring springplecipltation springprecipitation springpiecipitatlon I plecipltation precipitation develops to melt high highsnow highsnow highsnow snow at a rapid rate All reserVOir reservoirow reservoirowners 0\\ 0 ow 0ners \ ners should examine their spill spillways spillways ways \ ays and outlet works clean and andrepair andrepair andrepair repair trash racks and see that the thega thegate thegate ga gate te opera operating tll1g devices are in work workrng \ working \ ork orkmg mg rng order Piofessor Plofessor Professor Clyde advises advisesin advisesm m in the report reportIt 1 1It It \ was as found in the surveys iha that thatthe thaithe . , the snow cover on Utah watersheds watershedsis IS very vrry spotted sjotted : this year It con contams contarns contains tams tarns considerably less watel water than thanlast thanlast thanlast last year Low snow has melted on onal1 onall onall al1 all \ watersheds atrrsheds of the state and andthere andthere andthere there has been considerable pre- pre preAPlll preApril pre-Apiil pre Apiil - APlll April me ting tmg ttng on high areasGround areasGround areas areasGround Ground under the snow CO\ CO cover COer \ er is isuniformly isuniformly isuniformly uniformly saturated In spite of ofplemature ofpremature ofpiemature plemature premature melting meltmg theie thelc there ha has been beenhttle beenlittle beenlittle httle little rise in m the streams mdlcat indicat mdlcatmg indicatrng indlcating mg rng that snow sno\\ sno snocover \ . cover los es thl this thisyear thiayear : . year will be relatively heavy In Ingenelal Ingeneral Ingeneial genelal general the \ water ater content of the thesnow thesnow thesnow snow shortage iv ' will 'lull lull ill occur in south southern southern southern ern Utah on Sevier and V rgln rgin rglnrlver rginrivers rginrivers rlver rivers in 111 eastern easttrn Utah or Umtah Uintah Umtahbasm Uintahbasin Umtahbasin basm basin streams sti stl earns except the Duchesne Duchesneand Duchesneand Duchesneand and Price rivers Conditions Condlttons on the theateloheds theiv thewatel'heds thewatelheds \\ateloheds ateloheds ateisheds iv \ \ atei sheds ' in m cential centlal central and northern northernUtah northernUtah northernUtah Utah aie ale are somewhat some\\hat some hat \ better the re report report report port sho\\ sho shoRunoff showsRunoff shows shos showsRunoff \ \ s Runoff in m 1938 on roost most of the thewatersheds thewatersheds atersheds watersheds \ in the state \ was as fairly fairlygood fairlygood fairlygood good and no senousater serious senous \ water \\ater ater short shortage shortage shortage age developed This iear sear ear ho however howeverwith howeverwith ' " ever everwith with a snow cover of 50 to 80 per percent percent percent cent of that in 1938 some serious seriouswater seriouswatel water \ atel ShOl shortages tages are likely to toI todevelop I develop on streams which have noI nostorage nostorage no storage &i"it & - " & t / . facihtles facilities n nni ni iA < - Water STa ov users ncoyc hold holdIng holdmg hoi/I hoi I / I | ing mg primary rights to natuial natUlal natural flow111 flowwill flow flowMH \\111 111 will \ \MH MH \ \ suffer suiier most iuual , greatly gican.y gicany . Those Aliyau hav hay havI havmg haymg ijav ijavmg mg stoiage storage rights or a combmatlOn combination combinationof combmatlOnof I of storage and primary rights v.ill vill will v.illsuffer willsuffer . suffer ' no shortage |