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Show SPECIAL CLASSES AT A. C. FOR STUDY OF IIGSII Important irrigation problems and their attempted solutions will be the subject for a course of special classes at the Utah Agricultural College, Logan, Lo-gan, immediately following the farmers farm-ers round up. February 3 to 8, and will occupy two weeks. A special course for watermasters is to be given by the department of irrigation and drainage of the Utah Agricultural college during the coming com-ing winter, according to Professor. O. W. Israclson. This course will be given just following the big farmers' roundup which will be held at Logan.. It will run for 4wo weeks and aim. In that time, to give a fundamental knowledge of correct cor-rect irrigation practice and to acquaint ac-quaint those taking advantage "of the course with the important irrigation problems, of the west. Professor Jsraelson declares that a most urgent need for such a course j exists1 in this state. "Every Irrigation company in Utah should make it pos-I pos-I sible for its waterniaster to attend i this special course in irrigation," says Professor Israclson. "It would no doubt be well for every irrigation j company, purely as a war measure, to depart from its established practice of choosing a watermaster during March or April and begin immediately to look for the best available talen-. to act as watermaster next year. Choosing the watermaster now will j give him an opportunity to study at : home during the long winter months ! practical problems in water measure- j ments. and in capacities of soils to 1 I retain water, and to become acquainted acquaint-ed with company rules and regula-I regula-I lions and other problems vitally con-i con-i cerned with the economical use of the state's water 'supply. Just what Utah's i 1 most perplexing irrigation problems arc, and how to study them will be features of the special course for watermasters "It Is fully recognized that food pro- ' duction in the west is vitally depend - I out on the total available water sup- j ply and on how it Is used. Indeed, the fundamental importance of irriga- j tion to food production is so obvious ' as to need no comment. "Utah was probably one of the first slates to gjve special attention to the conservation of its irrigation waters as a means of increasing food production, produc-tion, and the Agricultural college has been called upon to assist in urging the need for unusual economy in the use of water. It has been asked to assist in some readjustments of water distribution, in order to save crops which were threatened with destruction destruc-tion through drouth, and about 3,500 acres of wheat amounting, in all probability, prob-ability, from 35.000 to 50.000 bushels of wheat have been saved in this way." |