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Show Farm Problems Will Be Theme United States government statistice give the total of irrigated land in Utah as 1,371,000 acres. The actual irrigated acreage is less than half of that amount, according to Professor Luther M. Winsor of the Irrigation Engineering department at the U. A. C. The reason, Mr. Winsor declares, is to be found, not in an actual shortage short-age of water nor in a lack of storage reservoirs, but in the improper utilization utiliza-tion of the supply of water now available avail-able with the existing facilities or with slight improvements of existing facilities. Professor Winsor has been working for a number of years on projects to develop better methods of conservation conserva-tion and utilization of irrigation water. He is planning to concentrate upon this program more intensively in the near future as a project of the Utah Experiment Station. A number of important lines of investigation in-vestigation will be taken up with the j cooperation of farmers in different parts of the state who are interested in helping to carry out the work Among them may be listed the follow- ing: 1. To what extent may land be benefited by storing spring, fall or winter waters in the soil; that is by irrigating the land during periods when there is no crops growing with the purpose of getting it thoroughly moist beneath the surface and thereby adding to the effectiveness of summer irrigation? Mr. Winsor believes that in certain sections of the state this method will give gnod results, depending depend-ing on the character of the roil and su bsoil. 2. What precautions may be taken to enable farmers to send early spring water through their canals and head-works head-works without the danger of damage from gravel and derhis? 3. It is possible to restrict the use of "gravity-flow" waters largely to the upper levels, supplementing' the amount required for low areas by water obtained from sub-surface drainage or from wells, or by pumping pump-ing from ponds ? In a period of high taxes and low farm prnfiis such as the .present, Mr. : I Winsor believes that it is better by i far for farmers to turn their attention atten-tion to the problem of getting the maximum use out of the waters now available, rather than to talk about, and work for the installation of elaborate elab-orate storage reservoir systems, which, to say the least, arc extremely expensive. |