Show director study of rural utah pleas with teachers and laymen to be alert fo irrigation demands in order to make a contribution to the rural industrial life of any people it is necessary to know the details of the rural district the present and potential industry of the people who live in the rural districts said william peterson director of extension service in an address becore a group of rural school teachers convened for summer school at the utah state agricultural college he cautioned teachers that it is necessary to know the local geography by states and counties and provinces geography as written m n textbooks and taught in schools schools seldom applies to the rural district in fact the geography of our rural section is not written it needs to be worked out in the local district where the people live and gain a livelihood among the things he recommended for teachers as well as laymen were familiarity with the climatic records wind velocities irrigation water and land classification he presented statistics which serve as a reminder that all utah citizens should be alert to encouraging the movement now nov under way to make the colorado river great basin water project a reality his figures show that the very existence of the rural homes in utah is dependent essentially on irrigation water to date there are only acres under irrigation only acres are being farmed without irrigation principally in dry land wheat this totals acres or an average of only 21 acres per capita for the population of the state brookings institute in its research says that from two and one half to three acres are necessary to produce the food and clothing for one individual according to these figures mr air peterson says utah definitely has a population pressure |