Show authority urges early irrigation to combat drouth farmers should make every use of whatever opportunities they have for early irrigation according to L M winsor irrigation engineer with the U S department of agriculture and for many years a member of the faculty of the utah state agricultural college mr air winsor advocates irrigation as early in april as it can be accomplished complis hed mr winsor points out the numerous experiments that have been conducted in utah all of which point unqualifiedly to the great value of early irrigation where the annual precipitation is low with utah irrigators facing a severe water shortage this year the rule will apply generally over the state according to mr winsor the he prospects for late season water in utah have never been so poor the great value of early irrigation is that it soaks up the dry subsoil sub soil later in the season it is almost impossible to get this subsoil to absorb water but it is comparatively ively easy to do so when the frost has ha s just left the ground mr air winsor declares that even in a normal year there are many sections where the dry subsoil sub soil can be found within thirty inches of the s surface u he advocates early irrigation whenever the subsoil sub soil is is found to be dry within reach of a long handled shovel or a six foot soil augur mr air winsor quotes from neumer ous experiments that have been made in utah since 1911 on this problem and he is emphatic in advocating vo that in the year every drop of early water should be used for irrigation purposes mr air and mrs airs W C tidwell have returned home after enjoying a visit with relatives mrs airs tidwell visited her twin sister who lives in denver wl while dle mr tidwell continued to kansas city to attend a conference of the continental tin oil co dealers and on their return home they visited relatives in sanpete county |