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Show Irrigation Test Slated For Friday The Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Conser-vation District in cooperation with Alden-D. White, will sponsor spon-sor a demonstration Friday, May 16, to show how much water is applied in irrigating a field. The demonstration will be held at Mr. White's farm, south of the Ballard school, and persons interested in-terested in better irrigation are Invited to attend. - - Grant Chugg, engineer for the Soil Conservation Service, will be in charge of the demonstration. demonstra-tion. The amount of the water coming com-ing onto a field from an irrigation irriga-tion ditch will be measured through a Parshall flume. The size of the field will be determined, deter-mined, plus the length of time the water runs will form the basis bas-is for a calculation as to the number of inches of water applied. ap-plied. The test, which will start at 10-30 a, m., is being conducted to determine whether too much or too little water is being applied. ap-plied. Recent Uintah Basin tests have shown that in some instances in-stances 13 acre inches of water Is being used for irrigating a field when a 4 to 6 inch application applica-tion is sufficient, the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service pointed out. |