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Show M'KAsViUXG. IRRIGATION" WATER The Utah Experiment Station has just published a circular giving plans and directions for the construction of various water measuring devices on the farm. The devices, recommended recom-mended are the rectangular, trape-! trape-! zoidal. and triangular weirs, and I submerged orifices. ! Prof israelsen Irrigation Engineer for t Je Station, who is the author of the publication, has explained the conditions under which each of these will work most satisfactorily. An important feature of the circular is tlu- tables for computing the amount ef water under various conditions. The Station has done a great amount or" work on the amount of water required for maximum crop production. This information is of iittle value to the farmer unless he has accurate, simple durable and inexpensive in-expensive devices for measuring water. wat-er. The practice of irrigation companies com-panies to charge on the actual amt. of water in growing, and the farmer cannot afford to pay for water which he does not need. These are some of the needs this publication has been issued to meet. All the devices discussed in the circular have proven themselves thoroughly practical, are easily constructed con-structed and operated, and are rel-: atively inexpensive and mean much1 to the economical and scientific use of irrigation water. |