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Show 12 STANDARD June 7, 1979 Farmery urged to be more energy-efficie- nt Production agriculture uses less energy in the United States than homemakers use in food preparation in their kitchens, yet both farmers and agricultural scientists are seeking required e Maintain proper tension on belts, chains and power drives to avoid slippages; e Make sure brakes are not dragging and other friction is avoided where possible; Joseph Austin, Extension Agent for Duchesne See that cutting edges are kept sharp on tillage and harvest equip- ways to reduce the energy for farm production, says ment; avsilable for farm e Gear up and throttle down where production becomes limited, and more possible in operating tractors and costly, farmers face the challenge of other power implements; becoming still more energy-efficien- t. Operate equipment in tandem They must do so if they are to hold where practical to avoid unnecessary the line on costs and expand trips over the land; o Take good care of fuel shade the production of food and other commodities to meet the needs of n growing storage tanks to reduce evaporation, filter the fuel to avoid contamination population, Austin said. Many things remain to be learned to and check fa oxidation of diesel fuel obtain more efficient use of energy in after five months' storage to maintain modern agriculture, but many things quality; Limit trips for repairs .and already known can be put to better in use of farm supplies - plan ahead where possible use, especially to accomplish several things with one equipment, he pointed out As spring and summer farm work trip; Plan for major shop repair work progresses, he suggested attention to the following energy saving measures: to be accomplished in winter months when it can be done more efficiently.. Keep equipment properly lubricated and in good repair; . It is emphasised that both farmers Keep engines on tractors, trucks and consumers will benefit from such and other equipment tuned up; efforts to make agricultural production still more energy-effiden- t. Copnty. As energy - VISITORS WASHINGTON Visiting with Sen. Jake Gam, representing the Utah Rural Electric Association, last Wednesday were; Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Monks and Mr. CONSERVATION ,.sviaZyy Rangely, Colo. ' graded and built to the right dimensions for the kind of soil and the particular field than it can readily water supply, water can be applied absorb, you invite both expensive very efficiently. This type of irrigation water waste and erosion. You may requires that each basin area be flat also risk bringing harmful alkali and and large heads of water be available salt to the surface. during irrigation so that the basins can water of the holding be filled quite rapidly. Knowledge BORDER IRRIGATION - This is a capacity of the soil makes it possible to controlled water for you to apply Just enough way of flooding the surface of but field. The idea is to advance a of needs a the growing crops, satisfy not enough to cause waste and sheet of water down a narrow strip between low ridges or borders and to damage. One you know the water intake get the water into the soil as the sheet rates and storage capacity of your soil, advances. It requires that the strip be and the amount of irrigation water well leveled between the bonier your ridges and the grade down the strip be available, you can adjust Irrigation program to these conditions. fairly uniform to avoid ponding. The There are a variety of irrigation ridges should be low and rounded so methods, which are adapted to a they can be planted with the strips. variety of field conditions. A few of This way no land is taken out of the more common are: production. This system is more BASIN IRRIGATION - The purpose of efficient that corrigation irrigation in this method is to fill a diked area of areas where it is -- dopted. CONTOUR OR BENCH BORDER land with water to the desired depth water into allow This method is IRRIGATION to the and go quickly the soiL When basins, are properly adapted To t;rly uniform moderate If you apply '. and Mrs. Willard Wall, Roosevelt, and Mr. and Mrs. Z. W. Long and daughter Renae, more water to a . IRRIGATION METHODS TO FIT YOUR LAND CROPS . AND WATER SUPPLY By Joka Marstella The water supply, the toil, the topography and the eropa to be irrigated determine the correct methfor applying irrigation water. Conservation irrigation requires care-fiattention to all these factors. The ability of different soils to take in and hold water varies greatly. Some soils absorb and hold luge quantities. Others take water very slowly or have little capacity. A thorough knowledge of the way your soils absorb water and the capacity of the different soils on your farm to store water is vital to conservation od ll water-holdin- g tv- - f Remember that shoppers read ads for information about products or services offered. So make your ads complete and factual. Its the best way to bring your business more business. Does your business have a distinctive logo? Then put it where it can be seen 24 hours a day seven days a week in your Yellow ftces ad. Most shoppers use the Yellow ftiges to find a specific product or brand. So tell all about the completeness of your prod uct lines. And dont forget to tell about your after-sal- e support, credit arrangements, delivery service and other controlled grade and the ridges are constructed parallel to each other. Strips must still be well leveled between borders. The major reason why the soils need to be deep is so that this leveling can be done. CORRUGATION IRRIGATION This method is the most common method used in the Uintah Basin. The water is applied in small furrows. It then moves laterally through the soil between the furrows to wet the entire area. This method is designed for heavy soils that take water slowly and that seal over and bake when flooded. It is also recommended for dose growing crops on steep or rolling land. FURROW IRRIGATION this is the most common method of irrigating row crops. Many of the present furrows are too steep for safe irrigation. This fact has been the greatest single cause of erosion by irrigation water. Cultivation to control weeds keeps the soil in the furrows loose and makes it easily eroded. CONTOUR-FURROIRRIGATION - This is the method of applying water in furrows across rather than down sloping land. The furrows are given just enough grade for water to flow, but not enough to cause soil washing. Deep furrow row crops can be irrigated safely by the contours furrow method on cross slopes up to -- : abcr right percent. BROAD FURROW IRRIGATION On slopes not exceeding 8 percent for most soils, the use of broad bottom -- - furrows in place of the usual narrow furrow will increase the rate of water intake and reduce furrow erosion. SPRINKLER IRRIGATION - Sprinkler irrigation provides excellent control of the water applied to the soil. Water may be applied with sprinklers at a rate which the soil will absorb without runoff. Because the water can be so carefully controlled, sprinklers have special uses in conservation irrigation. Sprinklers are excellent in areas of uneven' topography or on steep slopes. High intake rate soils and low intake rate soils are also effectively irrigated by sprinkler irrigation. CONTROLLED FLOODING - In this method water is flooded down slop between closely spaced field ditches which keep the water from concentratiing and causing erosion. If you have any questions concerning any of the irrigation methods, contact the Soil Conservation Service office in Roosevelt, Next Issue: IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT 722-205- L Ute alumni week features celebrities tie-breake- rs. A consumer survey of adults in Utah showed that 89 used the Mountain Bell Yellow Ihges on find you-- or find you in time? You an average of 38 times per year. And can help tip the odds in your favor at least 81 followed up by taking action to buy So be where by including a map of your location and your store hours the action is in the Mountain in your Ydlow Pages ad. Bdll&DowIhges. Bell System Yellow Pages Early in May Governor Scott Matheson a proclamation signed declaring Ute Alumni Week for the Reba Ann (Becky) State of Ut-- h. Wilcox, past resident and Ute Alumni Week advisor, and Dave Melrose, of the event, participated in the proclamation ceremony. ' Local resident and University student, Kaye Rachele, acted as of the Breakfast of chairperson Champions held in the University Union. The special breakfast featured Mayor Ted Wilson, Green Bay Packer and past Utah football great, Steve Odom, and Lee Grosscup, former Utah Ute and New York Giant Culminating the week's events was the 1979 Ute Alumni football game, in which the University of Utah's varsity football team played the past Ute football alumni. Steven Rachele, also a University of Utah student sang the National Anthem before 4 record crowd of 11,654. Valley. The cold temperatures following the snowstorm caused light damage to corn snd hay crops in some tress of northwestern Utah and caused spotty .damage to sensitive garden crops such is tomatoes, peppers, string beans, etc. Utah County reported some froet damage to fruit but most of the state's fruit crop escaped damage. It is' now apparent that the sweet eherry and apple crops will be reduced because of poor pollination. Prospects fair apricots, peaches, pears and tart eherries remained good. Irrigated winter wheat waa reported .in good condition but dryland wheat waa starting to show signs of stress from the lack of moisture1 in the northern portion of the state. The cold weather continued to slow growth. Spring planted, small grains, where irrigated, were good but. dryland grains were spotty. Soil moisture on range and pasture waa adequate in the southern half of the state and abort in the. northern half, but feed conditions remain good. Livestock was reported in good1 condition, with most having recovered from the seven winter. Fuel supplies were generally adequate, however, diesel remained tight in Cache, Rich, Weber, Grand, San Juan, Garfield and Kane Counties. Gasoline wss tight in Cache and Weber counties but had improved to adequate in Grand and San Juan. non-irrigst- Prices received by Utah formers y were ranchers in in than lower April, generally according to the Utah Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, USD A Prices paid for feed were higher, with the exception of dairy feed (14 percent) which wss the only decrease in the complete feed prices. were $63.50 per Limbs in mid-Ma- y cwt., up 40 cents from last month, compared with $59.10 in May of last year. Sheep, at $21.60 per ewt., were $1.90 lower than last month but $6.80 above last years May price. Wool, at 82 cents a pound, waa up a cent from a month ago. Cows were- selling for $52.10 per cwt compared with $52.90 in April and $87.60 in May. 1978. .4Ki. Calves were $90.90 per ewt, dowti from last months $95.50 but $32.50 above a year ago. Steers and heifers in May were selling for $75.90 per cwt, $3.50 lower than last month but $22.30 above May and -- iw v. slopes with deep soils. The strips are laid out across the slope on s Recurring periods of scattered bowers in most sections of the state during the week ending June 1. Local snowfall was reported in the extreme north central section of the state, the latest measurable of record in Cache Linda Sullivan, Milford, 1 979 Utah Dairy Princess, was on hand when Gov. Scott Matheson proclaimed June as Dairy Month in Utah j It Ji I 'ififcbJ Cj Wheat and feed grain sign-u- p ends, mid-Ma- 1978. Hogs st the U.S. level were $43.60 per cwt compared with $44.30 last .month snd $47.90 in May 1978. Utah barley was selling for $2.07 eligible forma in Duchesne County per bushel (14.81 per cwt) about enrolled. This was a preliminary price Jimmy Brotherson, chairperson of and waa 8 cent lower than April's the Agricultural Stabilization and revised price. Conservation (ASC) committee, said Alfalfa hay wss $52.50 per ton, 50 that program enrollment is higher ' cents above April, and other hay, at than in 1978. $45fi0 per ton, waa up $2 from last Participating formers intend to month. 100.3 acres under the Milk cows, at $1,090 per head, were and 150.8 acres under the unchanged from last month but $475 feed grain program. They will divert above a year ago. for payment an additional 15.8 acres. The preliminary all milk price for By adjusting their grain production May was $11.40 per cwt, unchanged in this manner, farmers help to obtain' from last month but up' $1.55 per ewt higher prices- for their crops, from a year ago. Brotherson said. They also become Dairy feed (16 percent) at $184 per eligible for price support loans on all ton, was up $1 from last month snd $4 eligible commodities produced, snd for above May 1978. Dairy feed (14 deficiency snd disaster payments on percent) was $126 per ton in crops of barley, corn, sorghum, or down $2 from last month and ' wheat on participating farms. unchanged from May 1978. According to Brotherson, wheat snd feed grain acreage planted for harvest on participating forms totals 1,237.5 seres, including 401.0 acres of wheat, 420.1 acres of corn, and 416.4 acres of The signup period for the 1979 wheat and feed grain program ended April 80, with 27 of the set-asi-de mid-Ma- y. set-asid- wheat-progra- e m - mid-Ma- barley. Aim hay harvest for top quality Be prepared to harvest yopr alfalfa hay when the crop is ready and to have it dry as rapidly as possible, advises Joseph Austin, USU Extension Agent for Duchesne-County- . He says harvesting alulfo hay when it's in the proper stage of maturity-pri- or to tenth bloom-- is second only to good management practices in growing the hay to achieve top quality. Tenth bloom, he prints out, ia getting on the late aide. From 20 percent protein at pre-bu- d stage it could be down to 16 percent if cut three weeks later. You lose both protein and energy value by waiting too long to eut, he says. At an altitude such aa Cache Valley the first crop alfalfa may decrease JS percentage units per day in energy after the pre-bustage. Also from 20 percent protein at that state it may decrease one percent about every .five days. The. optimum for yield and quality will be at the very first bloom. Some may need to be eut earlier to avoid having the latter part too mature. d You can speed the drying to help in quality and total seasonal yield, Austin ays. Use a conditioner that crimps or crushes the sterna and have the soil relatively dry when you cut the hay. Those measures help to get the hay off the field quickly without adding moisture from the soil. This also reduces the probability of getting the, hay rained on and making it posaible, to speed recovery by getting the hay. off quickly and irrigating the field soon! afterward. The method of harvesting depends largely on your preference and' available equipment, he states, but it is important to have the hay at the right moisture content for the method used. For conventional baling, aim for about 15 to 20 percent moisture to save the leaves and prevent pnig Letting it get a little on the (fry aide and baling with the dew on when poarible may be preferred. For the large bales and for chopping, the hay needs td be a little dryer. . |