Show Dan has had the Upper Sevier Soil Conservation land leveling equipment on his farm for the last He had some of his flattest down next to the cleared of brush and willows and Because the land Is naturally he is having It leveled to a very flat grade about one or two inches of fall in each For all practical this Is Flat land doesn't you And Dan will have freedom to choose any kind of cultivation or because the soil will not be neither by storms nor by He doesn't have to plant grass to prevent but he may plant a pasture If it suits his farming To Irrigate this he will build low border dikes about 50 feet apart and low enough that they can be crossed with mach Then he will arrange his ditches so that he can turn the whole ditch full of water into one border at a By being able to shut the water off and turn It into the next he will be able to avoid entirely the harmful effects of such as water-logging of the drowning the the of harmful alkali and waste of Perkins' irrigation will be essentially the same as the systems on the bench terraced fields of Bishop and Eldon Porter in Jack Yardley In Earl Jolley in Bishop Van Wiley in and Morris Shirts in And also like the of Irene King in The main feature being that all the needed water Is put on the land and there Is even distribution with no because the land is All except Dan Perkins had to mako level land on their sloping which required bench but the erosion control and irrigation can be Just as o- |