Show STOP W I 1 N fi ph WATER or dr gives figures i tull t ull till fcc f r rt A money maker that th t waste of water it Is on oll biorn fi oin richmond in the north to st george in the south A trifle avei 0 el one per cent of our lanus lanas in unter under 99 09 per cent are malting alting to be redeemed and wo we dare to waste water sy by waste of water I 1 mean the use of more i water ater than Is needed for the profitable production of crops and aad the maintenance of leaky for canals that allow the seepage of ono fourth to one halt half of all the in water ater that enters them Ca caneles Care reles leaa of our own good and the prosperity of our children we stand idly by and watch in apathetic silence the waste of life giving water or vone still unmindful of our brothers right or ignorant of the haim we do we ne our r selves by our own hands and by our own min direction sanction the waste of nv water ater stop it stop it now I 1 I 1 trust that ignorance ib 16 chiefly responsible for this waste every batern farmer knows how essential water Is for the production of crops and misguided by tho the idea that tho the more applied the larger the yield he uses every endeavor to ob obtain maln the fc reater possible amount of water for hl hi fields with the present develop ment of knowledge such ideas are no longer justifiable experiment and skillful practice have demonstrated beyond question that excessively large irrigations actually decrease the of all the ordinary farm crops considering the value of water light irrigations are most profitable and the farmer who instead of drown ing the plants on one field waters moderately or thie fields will get much larger returns for the capital and labor invested note as an illustration one of the many similar results obtained at the utah experiment station one acre of sugar bees beba to Nili which tall had haci been added water ator enough during th season to comer coer the he land to a depth of 30 inches alel ed 19 tons of sugar beets tino deres balch received together vs cs much inich water as was addea to the first are avre alono alone yielded jo 30 tons of beets sn increase of 11 tons duo due to the wise uso use of water it is a fairly safe rule to follow tint on the majority ot of the grain fields cf this state net more water should sl be added would cover tl a land to a depth of 10 inches if applied at one time on clabey cla ey soils much less would bo be better for sugar baeta and other similar crops 15 of water would probably bo be ample and tor for grasses 7 6 5 or fewer inches would suffice actual tests made by the U S department of ct agriculture hane hae ahon that the lse of water in this state over 0 inches per season that Is two or three times as much as would yield the best results but aside from the diminution of rop yield over irrigation does irre parable damage As the soil Is satur abed and saturated again with i ith water the valuable plant foods of the soil are washed down lower and lower until the ground water Is reached thus the soil Is robbed of 0 its fertility and the ground vater ater is tilled filled with alkali by and by the ground v water ater rises approaches the surface and in the low lands the alkali rises and renders unfertile wast vast areas of desirable farm country Is there an irrigated valley in utah the low lying lands of which are not leing filled with ith bitter alkali water that in time will spread ruin among the farms I 1 know of none and yet if water had not been washed in the past tho the alkali scourge would lime hae been insignificant today soils on the benches wit giaver beds should receive very light and frequent irrigations heavy irrl gallons do not help the crops but simply fill the bottom lands with water ater Is the man on the bench his brothers keeper do the glistening alkali spots on our bottom lauds lands answer S stop top ehst aste of if NA water ater 1 and tho the canal companies ws main thill baky canals canala blat t f t cm they would bettea elect n i va 1 I e tois who will nill hotop tho the le leki kl I 1 its t s no use saying sayin the leaks cant lo 10 Et cappel izi in the minority mijo InJo rity oi of casta caso it is 8 11 nt t true A lot of hustle a few and men plenty of cla clai a litt atto 0 rock and mortar und and a few la nels cf cement and the leakage from mot of our canals can be reduced to 5 per cent or less tho the alil i be more than offset by the inre sed flow of water which will loreaso the acreage under the canal and the ex peri per lence ence in hustling will be 0 f incalculable N alue to the whole community let a leaky canal le a disgrace to those who own awn it stop thet that naste aste of water if jou ou loo iono sour lour cowit country then there Is the water gr grabber abter who Is so greedy that he bags takes or steals and misuses water simply to kenj it from his neighbor or maintain his claim upon it as he be says I 1 have heard of the ancient and occasionally casio nally wholesome practice of riding certain fellow citizens out of ct town it would be delightful wholesome if tried upon the greedy w ater gT grabber abber who does not know or caro care to to use the water right this ii vestern estern country depends upon irrl gaion for its ity let us lear the best use of water the most economical and profitable use whatever vcr e evasion aelon ve A e attempt we are our lbrothers brothers keepers and we do not want the curse of cain the man who wastes water injures himself his neighbors the It strangers rangers on the lower farms lit state and the coming gere generation ration of sons ond end daughters less than one per cent of our lands are irrigated let le it be our pride eo co to use lse the water at our disposal that 10 per cent may be reclaimed dont waste naste the water jo join n A widtsoe in deseret farmer |