| Show WArS OF IRRIGATING BEETS I I Furrow Method Metho Has Given Without Doubt Most Mot Satisfactory Results- Results Its It's Advantages I By Dy F F. W W. ROEDING Irrigation Manager Manager Man Man- ager Irrigation Investigations Of or- flee fice of experiment Stations Environment and physical conditions have tended tende largely to determine methods of Irrigation In various localities localities localities ties but with the exception of California Call Call- fornia Cornia and to some sarno extent the Kansas and Idaho fields the furrow method Is adopted almost universally and the advantages of this method over others cannot be doubted In California checking and bordering for sugar beet et irrigation are largely largel practised and the furrow method Is unknown un un- known Y may be ascribed to various various va va- va rious causes the principal one being that fields are alo largely winter Irrigated that Is water Is applied before the crop Is planted The disposal of at the waste waters from the factories which were forbidden an outlet In any of ot the water fresh-water streams of at the state due to their polluting Influence led to their use on lands ands near by When the manufacturing season opened up It was too late to apply this water to growing crops so It was spread over fields which were vacant or been harvested Tn In order to facilitate and cheapen the distribution of water which ran day and night the land was leveled and anti checked and It was thus possible for one man to handle a large area Jar Large e checks are arc avoid avoided d the tho average size being from Crom a fraction of ot otan an acre to 1 acres The results from this practise proved so favorable that not only is the factory waste water thus used but in some sections all the theland theland theland land devoted to beet culture Is is' winter irrigated Winter Irrigating Is also practised in the fields of or Kansas southeastern Colorado and antI Idaho where late water can be obtained In the ditches The winters throughout this section are generally very dry so that when spring approaches the soil contains so little moisture that it cannot be worked until the heavy spring rains occur Evaporation is small during the cold weather and If Ir water is applied in the late fall the land Is in shape it in early spring for preparation The advantages advantages of this practise are obvious fox foi If the spring Is dry It Is necessary to irrigate before preparing the land and this always presents the danger of rains following an Irrigation and preventing preventing pre pre- preventing venting the working of the soil until too late The furrow method of Irrigation has given without doubt the most satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory results and It is possible to apply this system to fields having any configuration of surface from an almost almost al al- al most perfect level to steep slopes the quantity of water applied to each furrow furrow fur fur- I row and its depth being arranged accordingly ac ac- ac I cordingly Flooding in ia checks or In borders without previous leveling as practised in California on account of local conditions has answered Its purpose purpose pur pur- pO pose e but where Irrigation Is an absolute absolute ab solute necessity during the growing period the furrow method will be found to meet the requirements far better than any other |
