Show 18 COLUMN items of interest to tho bread win nera if it aou ou think of anything that will interest our neighbor send it in 61 0 for fo a number of years farmers of these arid and states have been concerned with the best use of water with small farms and limited means at their disposal they have been unable to make original investigations they knew know what had been done and were afraid to do any different to answer this question the U adept SD ept of agri culture and the utah experiment station are operating cooperating co for three years the utah experiment station has been making investigations eions along these lines as its a ground work this work was done on oil the station farm at logan and the results have been given to the deop people ae of tha state the tile conclusions drawn could not be taken as applicable to all the various soils and different climatic conditions to be found in our state this work was done on the light gravelly bench soils of cache county and though it was found that the tile best yield of wheat and oats resulted from froin the application of a depth of thirty indies inches of water on tho the land far the seabo 1 it would be foolish to infuso that tills this same amount would be best for the heavy clays of the bear eiver river valley and other places to tell any tiling thing about the beat use of water for the production of crops it is if necessary to experiment with all the different soils and in all of the farming localities to this til is end a law providing for an appropriation of fordge for use in irrigation and drainage investigations in the state during the next two years was provided it was passed by iho the last legislature on condition that the U S dept of agriculture would provide a like sum the work i is now going on in salt lake county with potatoes in utah and box elder counties with beets in manti sanpete co and milliard 00 oo with wheat in juab and tooele thoele counties with oats and in sevier with lucern hay and seed in these places nearly all typical soils and climatic conditions are mot met wit liand and tho the work can not fail to do a great deal of good to farmers erlof of the tile state it if they will read the bulletins sent out instead of using them to light airee to carry on such a scheme it has lins been necessary to operate cooperate co with representative farmers and to bo be guided somewhat by them in planning the work one plat on each farm is being handled liand led by the farmer alone on oil this plat ho he will use his best judgment as to times of irrigations and amounts applied but is required to keep a complete record of just what ho lie docs does the other plats will bo be treated somo sonic with moie more and son less water that the farmer uses some L v will receive heavy early irrigations followed by lighter irrigations and borne sonic just the reverse the flooding method vs the f furrow ur method is part of the plan in each locality in connection ni with ith this the pros pres ent duty of water in each locality w will 1 ill bo be investigated investigate 1 6 present duly of water means the number of nera s watered with a steady stream of a cubic foot of water every second to determine this standard weirs and U S irrigation investigation continuous depth registers are used along with this the number of acres under the particular ditch watered must be determined it is hoped that farmers in each locality will make an effort to give accurate information in this matter when it is ie quested the manti work is being done by L 0 kjar and visitors will bo be treated trl abed with courtesy |