Show agricultural NOTES S U OX S FOU FOR conserving WATER here are eleven good ways of saving ing irrigation water at cording according to protestor george dewey clyde state water conservator coiler vator practice early irrigation all water flowing into the valley early in fit the nason n ason should be used ou on the land as as possible all canal and ditches must be cleaned of all weeds grass and other rubbish just its ay early lit in the hie season reason as possible los sible lile first to reduce water 1 looses ob 71 and secondi to prevent the growth of weeds streams for should bd kept as large as pd ble lit in order to gei gee over the tae land quickly luick ly where te teerat eral farmers are arc using part of the tream at tile the sanie same dze time it will be wise to combine the lie streams aurs and atlow allow one farmer to use ilse the whole for it a shorter time at the head of every main ditch there should be some sort of a I 1 measuring device so that hat a I 1 farmer will know how much water lie is applying to r liis ills laud if tuo too much water ii used much of it is 11 wasted take care of yolar irrigation water at night as I 1 well as lit in the day time lime do not just turn the lie water onto the land and then go Q home and go to sil ep stav ith your water and blile its ours our A uc afo the rotation system of water turns it I 1 is the most economical c way ivay of handling the water filicie vach fich farmer lio has his own independent stream all the time it is a very waste wast ful fill practice and in ill time will uta usually lally ekamp his land and render it unfit fur for cropping purposes pur 1 keep beep down weeds weeda boc because aue weeds art are very heavy boavy users of water waier ind and where allowed to grow with crops leave very little moisture for tho choso crops to use ilse always plant crops crop on oil the farni ae ac cording to your water supply in 04 bior words do not plant more acres of crop than you have water to irrigate provide ditches tor for runoff run off water so that it if may be 10 used on lower areas never allow your runoff run off water to go 0 to waste iso alse short runs in ill macure ton long run runs are used tile iho upper part of tile the land gets too much mile and the t be lower part mirt not enough shorter runs run will vi I 1 you to make a more e i distribution of the water waier select the bit best w itel master you can call tind find pay bill iliin well so 0 he be can afford to belote ills his time to his duties give him P power ow e r to punish slothful tors and to see that k kach each ach irrigator lit lies hie water waier in ills HIS luin only this will I ill enable tile the to bule the limited witter water in sm un U n ii a way that it will the greatest good to the grear greatest cist number of families |