Show sT able to irrigation A mountain valley traversed by a creek or river and terminating in the almost vertical walls of a canyon is the rule rather than the exception Sites have been found in these valleys where reservoirs with capacities of from two to three million gallons could be constructed at a cost of about $12 per acre for the land watered Aside from the large water systems before mentioned there are eleven other smaller reservoirs and canals which store about 180000 acre feet of water The amount of water available for irrigation depends almost entirely upon the fall of snow in the winter and also upon the rainfall during the fall and spring months The total amount of rainfall during a number of years has averaged 1321 inches hence the great necessity for irrigating lom The amount of water for an acre of land or the duty of water during the season of plant growth varies of course with kind of crops temperature sunshine etc The type of soil slope drainage frequency of irrigating depends also upon a number of factors but generally the crop is irrigated about three times during the season the first when it is quite young second as the wheat is in the root thrid after it had headed out The methods used in irrigating are two: The flooding and the furrow system In the flooding system small ditches lead from the main ditch through the land at intervals dams are made and the water allowed to flood over the surface This is the method used in irrigating the cereals and forage crops The furrow system is used for irigating cultivated crops such as corn potatoes etc A furrow is run between each two rows and the water is allowed to run through it The average first cost of irrigating an acre is about $15 with an annual cost thereafter of $1 per acre I Tow Irrigatin' is Method of Measurin' water is measured at the headgate of the canal The best device for measuring water on the farm is the cipolitti weir It consists of a rectangular box placed in the ditch through which tlm water All In the front of the box is a trapi-zoidopening Tables have been constructed by means of which knowing the depth of the water flowing through the trapizoidal opening of the weir the volume of water flowing through the ditch at any time may be determined Irrigation promotes better methods of agriculture by requiring intelligent farming for the irrigator should know exactly when water is needed and the right amount to apply to each individual crop flows al Crops The principal product of Utah in point of acreage is wheat The average yield on irrigated lands is 40 bushels per acre while on unirrigated lands it is 15 bushels As wheat is the greatest in area so U I E NT L I PAGE THREE PE alfalfa is the greatest in point of value Of all the grasses and forage crops none give such satisfactory yields and are cultivated with as little expense as is alfalfa Potatoes lead in the size of the yield per acre 148 bushels being the average The raising of sugar beets is a profitable industry Five sugar factories are now in operation and others are soon to be con- structed By the system of artificial irrigation there are no droughts and hence no fail- ures and irrigated farms handsome dividends are paying time-punch- General The states thus far chiefly to benefit through the reclamation law are Wyoming Arizona Montana Idaho and Nevada Wyoming because of its peculiar geographical position and the fact that much of the water supply of the west originates in that state must have the storage reservoirs built there not only for her own use but also for Nebraska Second to Wyoming comes Arizona The third state in order of irrigation benefits is Montana Idaho comes fourth in point of benefits and Nevada fifth EIGHT-IIOCi- r ment Often the only way to get ahead is to get out and too often the worker cannot get enough ahead to get out The lawyer the doctor the merchant know no eight-hou- r day The lawyer often follows a hard day in court by a still harder night preparing for the following day The successful doctor knows neither day nor night but goes when he is called and if he gets a little time he too must study to keep pace with the world’s advance ment The merchant sells goods all day and then often makes his purchases straightens his stock and plans his future business while the goes to a pitcure show or sleeps The banker who is usually considered to have the shortest hours of anyone may work on his balances till midnight and many never be free from the worry of his One single error in his investments judgment may mean more than the entire year’s salary of the average eight-hou- r worker He can The farmer is a free man work as long as he likes and he can lay off when he likes If he is ambitious and energetic he will in busy times work long hours and get ahead If he is lazy or careless he will stop with eight hours even if the work should ‘sufTer A few days’ difference in spraying time may make a thousand dollars difference in the harvest of the fruit grower If storms interfere and the time is short every hour of daylight should be used and holidays forgotten On a farm recently visited smut had taken between three and four hundred dollars worth of grain We asked why the seed had not been treated The farmer said he did not get the seed in time to treat it Three hundred dollars for a couple of nights work would have been pretty good pay A field of ripe grain may be entirely destroyed by a storm A few hours of extra work would have put it in dohars an hour is the stack Twenty-fiv- e not bad wages One hour would hire a man to take care of the farm for a couple of weeks’ vacation sometimes when the work was not pressing In a very few counties in the state the farmers are adopting the eight-hou- r day This we believe is' a mistake Near the larger cities it may be necessary to pay basis but for day labor on an eight-hoa man who will not work more than eight hours for extra pay when work is pressing is hardly worth having around at any time We predict that the community that adopts that system will soon drop behind in the march of progress — The Utah Farmer o DAY OX THE 1WKM There are very few callings that allow of as much personal freedom as does the farm life There are also few occupations in which this fredom is more abused or as little appreciated as on the farm Many farmers think that their life is one continuous weary grind and yet if g tied down to the montonous life of the clerk carpenter shopman or miner they would soon rebel and be glad to go back They would soon learn that freedom rs often means the privilage of working as long and as hard as they want to as it does the privilege of working short hours worker in shop or Many an eight-hou- r factory many a clerk and bookkeeper struggling along just making both ends meet or temporarily behind because of the extra burden of an increasing family would give almost anything in reason to be allowed to work longer hours so as to add to his slender income And those extra hours would be happy ones thinking of the extra comforts they would be bringing to loved ones or the burden of debt they would lift The eight hour law lias been of great benefit to those engaged in occupation where health might be endangered— the mine the factory the sweat shop close confining occupations of all kinds — but like most things which we have as blessings they also bring their attendant evils Probably the greatest evil of the eight-hoday is that the great majority of those that begin punching a time clock never cease punching They become part of a system often a system which has little opportunity for individual advance time-servin- ur er ur 4 Extension Division has sent judges to the following Summit Uinta Basin county fairs: County Carbon and Emery Counties Cache County Millard County and has yet to supply others coming later in the season The county fair idea is growing very rapidly— Ex The Agricultural College |