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Show H NOT STUPIDLY H Ai a meeting of the Utah AgrlCUl H; tural College branch of the American m Association of Engineers, A. V. Car-J Car-J don, federal farm land appraiser. In H lonned the engineers that the federal government will refuse to lend money on land where the water table is closer than four feet to the surface, except where drainage has been provided, and B i hen he made this statement: V "It is not irrigation we need, but K drainage. Alkali is developed from H waterlogging and to avoid all the bad Bj effects upon agricultural lands from a H water table too close to the surface, J artificial drainage Is a necessity." H The speaker urged the. engineering B club to adopt the "ounce of preven lion Is worth a pound of cure" theory H in regard io IrrlgHtlevn engineering |