Show IRRIGATION TION IN UTAH UT AU Experts Submit Report to Department Department De De- of Agriculture on Experiments Made E. E U. U Morgan organ Irrigation atlon cn engineer Ine 1 anti and C C. F. F own Brown drainage thi engineer who have ha been working under the joint direction and support of the lie United States Slates experiment station and the state stale experimental station at Logan Logan Lo Lo- gan gali have Just submitted to the department de do- of agriculture at ton tOil on I their heIr report of Irrigation experiments ments In iii Utah for 01 tho the year ear 1 1905 The report will later be bc published In n pamphlet form Corm and will be hc of great Interest to the farmers of Utah Ulah as aswell aswell aswell well as u the thc remainder of the Intermountain intermountain inter inter- mountain country The report i ii a voluminous one nile Including seven fifty pages of oC typewritten tun mutter matter with t twelve wel statistical tn tables The rhe report deals deais with w Irrigation In all ull Its phases The Tho act under which the work woI was done lone provides that e experiments ex cx- and amI demonstrations shall shull Include Include- the Investigation ni of or water requirements re- re I on crops usually grown rown In Utah For that hint lea reason on most of or tho the experIments experiment W were vere JC made with alfalfa alfalfa seed potatoes wheat wheal and sugar beets How Work Vork Vas Va Done Honc This work was done at experimental tal stations selected In the state so as us asto asto to give I c the widest variety of locality local local- It ity soil soli and crops The chief purpose of the experiments was to find the thc utility of 01 water wat I under tinder varied conditions condi and anti for this reason ii those In charge of the lie experiments took pains to select their stations on Oil the lie farms of oC the thc more advanced agriculturalists of or the lie stale state as they believed ell In that wa way the lie best possible results i would be obtained After selecting a temporary station the tue men In charge of ot the experiments would divide a tract of lan land Into sections sec see ions In one of oC tile the sections the lie owner of the lie farm would be he asked to o cultivate sonic some product of oC the thc soil soli in lii the way wa he ha had he been en accustomed accustom ell In Iii the other sections tho the same seed would be planted an and different e experiments ex ox- wore were tried 1101 as to the time lime and umI manner of planting the lie time ime of Irrl Irrigating and amI the thc qun quantity of oC water use used One of or the lie experiment stations was vas located at Richfield others at Manti NephI Tooele Dig Biff Cottonwood canyon canyon can can- yon you and at Garland Some valuable facts have heart been established by these experiments but further Investigations Investigations bus 01 art are nee needed ed for fOI the he solution of or other oIlier problems ms and anti these will be In Instituted In- In by the lie government in lii the lie near future rulure |