Show Conservation Irrigation Ity Justin Smith Trying flat irrigation for the first time on his Bishop Van Wiley of Antimony irrigated five acres In five hours last Friday without wasting uny water nor eroding any He was especially pleased with the ease and speed of handling the An adjoining field of about the same size is expected to require i In- same amount of water three cubic feet per for eighteen to twenty for one The Soil Conservation Service helped him install his flat Irrigation because it is the one way to irrigate without eroding away any top soil from the and with this system our scarce irrigation water can bo used to the best there being no waste from runoff nor from excess water going deeper than the root This advantage is especially significant this dry The equipment operator was Maurice of Sa-lina who makes a business of leveling farm As Wiley's field is on a it had to be made flat in which 30 feet lying across the curved on contour lines to fit the Each terrace is enclosed in a dike so when all the water In the ditch is turned into one land at a It Is contained r as In a All the irrigator has to do is to change the water ev-ery twenty or thirty A similar field was bench terraced cm Wilson's and El-dan Porter's place at Hatch last Their flat irrigation system attracted favorable attention by cutting the irrigation time to less I ban besides preventing any more erosion of top Jack Yardley of Panguitch and Morris Shirts in Escalante each have small of bench terraces on their but haven't watered them yet to see how well they |