Show IRRIGATION TO BE FEATURE Actual Laboratory Practice Will Bo Be Given During Farmers Farmers' Week at Colorado Agricultural College Actual laboratory practice In Irrigation Irrigation mn gation work will be be- given as a n. feature of the farmers' farmers week program at the agricultural college this year for th the first time according to the Fort Lupton Lup Lup- ton Press This is made possible bythe bythe by bythe the completion and equipment of ot tho the new irrigation building This building Is unique from the fact that it Is the only building In the United States StateR constructed and equipped exclusively for irrigation engineering i The development of Irrigation by pumping in this state promises to be te beof teof of more Importance In the future than any other phase of the irrigation lem tern Pump work will be bo taken up Inthe in inthe inthe the irrigation laboratory and the different different dif dlf dif dif- ferent terent kinds of pumps their construction I tion cost efficiency and operation will be demonstrated All this work will actually be done by the farmers themselves who will learn to do by I doing 0 Tho The construction of the different kinds of at standard weirs and their op will be demonstrated in the tha I same way Each year water becomes more valuable valuable val vat to Colorado and its accurate measurement more Important Forth For th this s reason attention will be given to water meters and their use The much vexed question of tho the relation relation re re- re- re lation of the miners Inch to td the second-foot second and the foot acre will be made plain The development of ot Irrigation In mountain regions requires economical and efficient flumes fiumes Flume work willbe willbe will willbo be bo demonstrated In the laboratory with first-class first equipment Pipe work will also receive its share sharo of atten atten- tion To Insure the success of ot all these lines of work prominent manufacturers ers of irrigation machinery are donatIng donatIng donat donat- Ing lug equipment to supplement that regularly regularly reg reg- used by th the irrigation department department depart depart- ment meat of the Colorado Agricultural college col col- col lege A special corps of at assistants has been employed to assist the farmers farm farm- ers era in the operation of this equipment equip equip- ment meat |