Show FLOW OF IRRIGATION WATER Question as to io- Amount of 01 Water to irrigate Sixty Acres In Oregon Is Answered Given four second feet of water three days 72 hours Irrigates 60 aci am of land How many Inches of wa would It require per acre flow for 15 days to furnish the t fc second feet for the three days givia a period of 12 days between Irrl Oregon has taken control the waters of the tho state and In the water rights It asked us the original appropriate how much water we require A c has contested our claims a their expert claims that three three-elgh of an Inch of water continuous flo fib floIs Is a the solution to the above We are skeptical The above question il Is answered F P. P H H. King in the Rural Aural New Tor TorIn In the following statement Four second feet of water for hours applied to 60 acres of la would cover It to a depth of 4 Inches and Is equal to cut cull feet We do not know the value o a legal Inch of water for Oregon F California one Inch of water Is fined as equal to one-fiftieth one of a S st Bt stand and ond foot Court decision sets It one one fortieth fortieth of a second foot for A Azona ona zona Colorado specifies miner Inches In one second rt root mot ot imis inc im Is taken at one fortieth of a seco foot It would require four times 4 or inches flowing continuous three d days ys or 72 hours to equal fou second feet continuous flow for 7 hours Three Three eighths eighths of a miner Inch flowing continuously 15 days I 1 Ionly ionly only cubic feet or Inch o o rainfall on 60 acres at the Californi value and but cubic feet o a inch of rainfall on 60 acres acrel a athe athe athe the Arizona value If applied to on en acre Instead of to 60 acres the dept of water expressed as rainfall woul be 60 times the values Just given o Inches where the California Inc Is the standard and inches if th Arizona value of the inch Is take takei In other words three-eighths three of miners miner's Inch continuous flow for 1 days Is equivalent to Inches Inches of rainfall on one acri where the values of the Inch are thor thos stated If f three-eighths three of a miner inch flowing continuously 15 da dad daj gives to one acre the equivalent to inches of rainfall to o a aply aply aply ply the same amount to the acre I 1 three days continuous flow would r quire five live times three eighths Inch water or one and seven |