Show EARLY IRRIGATION OF OATS MOST IO T PROFITABLE AnLE If It oats can be watered but once a year it pays to do It early while the water is plentiful according to a publication just issued by the Utah Experiment station This conclusion is derived from three years years' experimental work con conS ducted on the Station tarot tara at t North Logan b by F. F S. S Harris and D D. D W WI Pittman Many May combinations of the wate water ate were here ere used Including weekly Irrigations of various amounts al and at the various stages of gro The most profitable system was to apply three irrigations n of about five inches each beginning when the grain was about five or six Inches high and stopping about the time it was In bloom Whore Where only one irrigation irrigation irrigation gation was given tine the best time to apply it was at the tho leaf five-leaf stage and where two were given the five five- le leaf t and boot st stages were the best Twenty Inches acre-Inches of water In addition to the rainfall spread over four acres of or land produced over three times Ames as 88 much oats as where it was all used on one acre The These e and other results obtained in this this this' experiment are graphically illustrated and discussed in detail in Bulletin Irrigation of Oats Oats' recently Issued b by the Utah Experiment Experiment Experiment ment Station I |