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Show used on each crop was computed by : measurement on the weir, checked against the length of time water was applied to a particular piece of land. During the fust year of the experiment ex-periment a full-time engineer was employed to assist in checking on 1 measuring equipment and records. The second year the number of co- j operators increased from 100 to 435. Farmers went into the programs with reservations as it was new to them. "Results, however, have been most satisfying to the farmers, to those who had charge of the experiment, experi-ment, and to the extension service and the agricultural edjustment ad- ministration," Professor Porter de-' Clares. "The experiment gave a thorough conviction that crops can be raised with much less water than is being used regularly in Utah, and that irrigation ir-rigation can be performed without erosion," comments William Peterson, Peter-son, director of the extension service. IRRIGATION EXPERIMENT SHOWS NEED FOR STUDY OF WATER USE IN UTAH Available irrigation water in Utah could be extended to 50 per cent more land, erosion from irrigation would be reduced, and crops would be improved if all farms of the state were irrigated with the same core as a group of farms on an experiment ex-periment in Weber and Davis counties coun-ties during the past two years, Professor Pro-fessor Wilford D. Porter, extension editor at Utah State Agricultural college, points out. I Reviewing the two-year experiment experi-ment conducted by the extension service and the agricultural adjustment adjust-ment administration in the February Febru-ary issue of "Extension Service Review," Re-view," monthly publication of the U. S. department of agriculture, Professor Profes-sor Porter explains that the cooperating cooper-ating farmers agreed to apply no more than six Inches of water in a single irrigation. Under the program pro-gram they were required to prevent soil from washing, leaching, or water-logging. Measuring devices were installed at the head of ditches leading directly into cooperating farms, and the amount of water |