Show TI r m l nm dd Mead of the Department Gave Gac Interest InterestIng Of or Agriculture log Ing Address Last Night OUT OF THE ALKALI h This Direction He lie KC Itc pc Progressing In ocr er erGood to be bc 1 Good Shape 1 I M Mead ad of ot the bureau Espert department of ot f S Interesting lecture lait lut night Kit e an hall boll before a n fair tolf sl d aU u uIn In obtain obtaInIng of ot Irrigation In methods on a Italy HIs lecture was Ing a northern views which 1 rated by w Illustrated KS cured white while in the tho land of he Ie noticeablY Noticeably In the vicinity of Ml MI more o thoroughness scientific ana the J lIh Ah the Irrigate f their with surprise Tho I noted Id as Suns do not stint at using mini cement cemen I italians and then thero Is no small and amount of and costly Is centuries old much of which rights over of water have been Jint over oyer to O long were In European In Iga ago J em rs The Tho canals In northern lion circle r original built by the thO itAly ere but the un lh nobility the by h or proprietorship during the tho series fierieR canals finally brought the tho c 01 In Ina dr the control of ot the government settled Fettled the tho troubles a canals and Str vat ater along the tho since troubles Ibm has not been any northern Italy lIah all disputes arc aro I by arbitration Moreover M tiled now K farmers farmer hI 0 como to regard Ibe of ot others In the matter of ater of ot the One of the showed showell part of ot an Italian farmer wh which oh Med Included hoes ID 10 times heavier than the Am American article and a I scythe lIc lIat no Sin could be In other than thon the light of a tW for tor It was liS a 8 most clumsy affair In of the Irrigated localities the land Is o nimble that 1300 worth lor h of hay ht to the thee tut e Is I harvested there thero annually and the value of the tho land It dt Is 18 per fler acre cre Prof Mend paid ald he was very ery Interested In the Irrigation work It In this wet tern country and particularly In tk the work Icing being done by b Dore DUI mUI the Utah state engineer It ll III result In the tho greatest good for forthe the ln In an n Pro Prot Mead sold said the tho f of hl hla bureau Will was to experiment a view to saving water to tomake make the be beat t use uee of ot It ns nil well a to alkali land Matters of con can construction and an engineering taken tire me of by the geological survey The Irritation bureau Is 18 also experimenting la In the matter of ot seepage hid aid the professor From a third to toa a hilt of or the water available for tor Irrl here In Utah Is lost by seepage Where water Is valuable la ls a n 1 problem In California they Ire an experiment which J If sue will do much toward solving the problem there They are nrc mixing with the noil oll and plastering the t t interior of ot the ditches In III thin r It Is II hoped hOlled to reduce the Prof Mead leat stated further Our ex with washing out tho alkali lion Irom lands landl in the Hat west we at of Snit Halt Lake are progressing progress Ins favorably We kope bope to pcr the farmers to the matter mailer up ulland and follow tollo out the tho tamo Bom lines luitt with own OWl alkali land It la Is 1 of ot washing wa out tier and ond the returns worth tho and nn effort many times over Land Lan that Is II practically value fW less en can p made worth nn nero aero |