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Show Thursday, April 26, 1956 THE TIMK-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. Pag Three THE COUNTY AGENT'S CORNER By G. RAY BURTENSHAW TTMUS THE - i i t m Juab County Agricultural Agent SWato, Sprinkler System Gives Many Advantages For Land Irrigating 1 v i m minr Program for Continuous 3 1 .1 - Cleanup Outlined Considerable activity was notic ed throughout Nephi on the cleanup program Saturday of last week under sponsorshrip of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. -. . n z. i It is believed, however, that to A. r.T- fas make the city beautiful a continu-ou- t READY FOR DISPLAY in the one-da- y Livestock Show. Friday program of improvement lis are Suffolk sheep of Verl Wilkey. Shown with Verl are J. Walter needed the year around of clean Paxman of the Kiwanis Club Agricultural Committee, and Fred up, paint up and planting of trees, shrubs and flowers. Therefore the Wilkey. Verl's father. Nephi Chamber of ommerce, local merchants and the Nephi Garden club are offering a d progrm with prizes as an incentive to improvement of the beauty The Chicken Creek Camp of the Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Brown and of our surroundings. of Utah Pioneers met baby of Salt Lake City spent the Prizes will be offered home Daughters owners for the best improvement last Thursday, April 19, at the ween end in Nephi and Levan. Levan City Hall. The lesson "The in Nephi they visited with Mr. through the summer of all the home and yard surroundings. This Handcart Pioneers" was given by and Mrs. Douglas Brown, and in means the painting of homes other Lorene Morgan. Four officers of uevan they were guests of Mrs. the County D U P organization: Edna Sherwood. Mrs. Sherwood buildings and fences, the removal of old sheds and other fire haz Alligee Anderson, MaudaJtobert-son- , accompanied them to Salt Lake Alberta Jones aind Amy War- city to spend the week. ards, and the planting of trees, ner, were in attendance. In adshrubs and lawns. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Maneelson Home owners in order to par- dition to the county officers, those and children spent last Thursday were Bessie Pyytrup, Cora present will need to ticipate register by a certain date with the committee Wankier, Lorene Morgan, Leah in jviurray wiui tneir son in law Christena Stephenspn Vin- - and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. tems. to be chosen from the two above Bosh, ese 5 Drainage problems are les Edna Sherwood, Ol- vaugnn Mathews. Taylor, and completed by a ive Poulson, Leora Christensen, sened (because water is seldom organizations specified closing date. These, lost to deep percolation. with the committee and ad Anna Shepherd; visitors were Mae along 6 Unskilled labor can be used ditional and prizes will be announced Wankier, Gertrude Shepherd at regular hours to do the Refreshments Mangelson. later. It is planned to same some Leona before and after on col- were served by Leah Bosh and Christena Stephensen. 7. ' New crops are much easier ored slides of thepictures improvements to start, especially on steep, and made. sanay soils. The Mrs. Eileen Ballow was hostess merchants have 8 New rough land can be laready following listed their prizes: Chap- to members of the Civic-ettclub brought into production faster. man Furniture Co., Bailey at her home last Wednesday even 9 liquid fertilizer can be ap Co., and Tri State Lumber ing. A lovely lunch ws served to plied through the sprinkler Co. Prizes listed by them con- Marva Shepherd, Pauline Man sist of first, five gallons paint; gelson, Ella Fay Beard, Bonnie 4 MONEY-SACGUARANTEE! Disadvantages listed include the second, three gallons paint; and Pystrup, Loodse Taylor, Gwen cash outlay for installation of the third, two gallons Helen Tedder, Irene SAM'S If the PHOTO Stephensen, paint. MB system. Power or euipment fail- price of paint purchased from Mangelson, Stephensen, ure, if prolonged, cause a crop these dealers is not desired, then Carol Hansen, Myrtis -- ' Jewel Grant, Enid I Utofc cy, lailure. Clogging of nozzles by equal value can be applied to Worwood, Melba Ballow, Codeal trash is annoying when the source other merchandise in their store Brough and the hostess, Mrs. of water is the usual irrigation such as lawn seed, shrubbery, ditch. A special trash collection lawn furniture, wall "paper or in 4 Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Worwood or disilting structure is required terior paint. in case of ditch use. Watch this paper for further went to Las Vegas, Nevada last Where the soil being farmed is developments, but let's unit to Friday to meet her parents, Mr. of a clay basis, the changing of make our community more beau- and Mrs. Forrest Memmott who had spent the winter in California the laterals immediately fololwing tiful. ';v..and who were returning to their the sprinkling can be n unpleasV home in Scipio. ant task. A letter from Ariel M. Jor- With a sprinkler, one should Mr. and Mrs. Christian Pay-stru- p provide from 5 to 7.5 gallons of gensen, Utah State Chairman of accompanied Mr. and Mrs. water per minute for each acre the Soil Conservation committee to be irrigated, or one cubic foot states: "A canvas of results of the Raymond Paystrup of Tooele to per second for 60 to 90 acres of election for three supervisors In New Mexico recently where they land. These figures are average the Juab Soil Conservation Dist- visited with Mr. and Mrs. David for the stte of Utah and for diver- rict held April 18, 1956 shows that Burns. Mrs. Burns is the former sified crops. This water should Arvil Wankier, Edgar Christen- Dora Paystrup. as a continuous sen and Hugh Sperry are the dulv be available The following relastrem, since a sprinkler system el ected supervisors of the district tives and friends attended the should operte continuously to be for three year terms effective on funeral services for Mrs. Alvena the most economicl. If the re- April 18, 1956." Christ ensen last Wednesday: Mr. members of the Board and Mrs. quired water were to be applied are Other Rodger Lunt, Mr. and Loren Keyte of Mona and Mrs. in half the time, it would take DeRay Bird and family, Mr. Frank of more Morgan a and Nephi power larger pipe, and Mrs. Wayne Childs, George larger pump. All this would cost the time reuired for moving lat stephensen, Jay Stephensen, Mr. more money to do the sme job. to eris and meet the needs of and Mrs. Lewis Christensen, Mrs. Therefore, water should be sup- the crop. yet Thelma Zang, Mr. and Mrs Carl plied continuously or as nearly The irrigation "turn" is not con- Riggs, Mrs. Florence Highm, Mr. so as possible, if one expects econ- ducive to sprinkler irrigation and and Mrs. Delmar Highm, Caroline omical sprinkler operation. if a continusous stream cannot Gunderson, Mr. and Mrs. Armond Some safety factor should be pro- be Gunderson, Mrs. Lela Childs, Mr. with officials, it vided, however, in case of break- ik arranged ior tnose and Mrs. Leo Christensen and necessry contemplat down or interruptions. The sysLucille Stephensen, Mrs. oJseph-an- d to build a ing spnnKiers pond tem should be designed so that it family, Mrs. Beth Tolley, Mr. large enough to store the entire can, if necessary, be idle two to turn of water. This can then be and Mrs. Wesley Christensen, three hours each day in addition usea Mrs. Josephine Cahoon, Commiscontinuously. sioner C. R. Lomax, Cl'ftun Step hensen, Mr. and Mrs. Axel Step hensen, Mrs. Erne Bean, Mr. and Mrs. P. B Day, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mr. Day, Mrs. Tola Butterfield. and Mrs. Elijah James, Mr. and Mrs. Armand Proulx. WE'RE SAVING Mr. and Mrs. Kenard Stephen- sen and family of Sprlnville were WHY WE week end guests of his parents Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Stephensen. Kathleen Green returned with them to Springville. There are a great many advantages to sprinkler irrigation according to a recent study. In order to have farmers of our area fully acquainted with this type of irrigation, we present herewith a review of advantages and disadvantages. Adventages of a sprinkler type irrigation system are: 1 Porous and uneven soils are irrigated more efficiently, often saving 50 per cent or more of the irrigation water that would be required by surface irrigation. 2 Soil erosion resulting from surface irrigation can be reduced or eliminated. 3 Land is saved by eliminating ditches, furrows, borders and corrugatoins. These items may require up to five per cent of the total acreage. 4 Steep, poms soils which are difficult or impossible to irrigate by surface methods can be irrig ated efficiently by sprinkler sys r-- ... ... News of Levan - - year-aroun- WORKS THE GARDEN NOT THE GARDENER hk for 1 Fim liSBKtratlN A Merry Tiller garden is a pleasure saves work, adds l3ure. Let us demonstrate Merry Tiller to you. See this easily operated power tiller and garden tractor two machines in one! Stirs soil to 10" deep. Prepares seed beds in a single operation. Speedy rotary cultivation . also does all garden tractor jobs. 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He knows needs and your ha provided quality products at the same reasonable prices you'd pay anywhere. day-to-d- ay at 1 HOME This message is brought by the NEPHI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, composed of the following firms PARKIN Add up these and other advantages of sprinkler irrigation, and you can see why more and more modern farms use it: Eliminates ditches, providing more acreage. No running water to spread weed seeds. No runoff, taking away top soil. Distributes water more evenly, bringing better root systems, higher germination, and bigger BETTER...fedrcay UTAH POWER a LIGHT CO. CO. MANGELSON DRUG CO. EXCLUSIVE LADIES SHOP ANDERSONS CONOCO SERVICE ORD & GARBETT'S ML yields. FARM MOTOR NEPHI CLEANERS Hal STATES TEL & TEL CO. CHRISTENSEN'S, INC THERMOID WESTERN CO. SNAK SHAK CLARK'S WHOLESALE SERVICE JOHNSON'S IGA MARKET SPARKS MOTEL TRI STATE LUMBER DR. P. CARTER'S CAFE CHAPMAN FURNITURE CO. RALPH'S MARKET NEPHI CLINIC NEPHI DRUG CO. TIMES-NEW- S PUBLISHING CO. J. C. PENNEY CO. THE TOGGERY THE TIME BOX PAXMAN'S IMPLEMENT CO. COMMERCIAL BANK OF UTAH 4-PLUMBING & BUILDERS SUPPLY NEBO CLUB NEPHI MOTOR CO. PRATT'S MERCANTILE CO. EL TONYA MOTEL VENICE THEATRE D COMPANY STOWELL'S COAL COMPANY UTAH POULTRY & FARMERS CO-O- SILVER MAPLE SERVICE P. NEPHI JEWELRY L JONES STEVE'S TIRE SERVICE RAY'S CAFE PEXTON WHOLESALE CO. NEBO CHEVROLET CO. E. R. SHAW CO. ALLEN'S CASH STORE BAILEY MOTEL DICK'S SERVICE, INC COMPANY BURTON BARBER SHOP BAILEY-McCUN- E -- |
