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Show Irrigation Conflab Concludes at AC Irrigation research experts from 17 western states and representatives represen-tatives of several federal agencies, agen-cies, wound up their three day conference on irrigation and drainage drain-age research problems at Utah State Agricultural college Wed- many problems connected with the maximum utilization of land and water resources," Dean Clyde-declared. Clyde-declared. "These factors will become even more important in the fu-ture. fu-ture. If the war continues, increased in-creased food production will be vital and better irrigation ancL land utilization are imperative to that production," he said. "l4 me iuiiuiL.i, cnud ayjvii, ivuu mands undoubtedly will remain, high and the problems will continue." con-tinue." In the post-war period, agrl. culture will face a problem of producing more economically. This ; also can be brought about by-t the more scientific use of water as it is applied to the soil for ; irrigation. Another phase of the' work will be better surveys and : studies for expected postwar ir- I rigation and drainage and com- : I bined power projects. nesday and set in operation a plan to continue the discussions next year. Clyde McKee, director of Montana Mon-tana Experiment station coordinator coordin-ator for experiment station directors di-rectors of the 11 western states, will appoint a committee to work out plans for a similar meeting to be held next year, according to George D. Clyde, dean of the USAC school of engineering. The meeting, to be sponsored by Experiment station directors of the western states, will continue con-tinue discussions on problems uncovered un-covered at the current meeting, he said. "Research workers in irrigation left the Logan conference with a recognized need for the com. bined action of state and federal agencies to work in close cooperation cooper-ation toward the solution of |