Show IMPROPER irrigation editor roosevelt standard it has occurred to the writer that a few suggestions from an old timer would not be amiss we may notice a large amount of irrigating wherein the farmer seems to be caring for but one thing viz to get the water unto the land it seems according to best advice almost ad as important to get the water off of the land as it is to get the water unto it if by carelessly irrigating the land below my land is injured by alkali my farm has been injured thereby it is not an uncommon thing to find one farm nearly ruined by the water above it the lower farm may seem to be the only one injured but from several view points the upper farm may be injured say at least 10 per cent by depreciation in farm value it seems as though many people donot consider the fact that in the uintah basin we are building a country everything is is new requiring artists to carve out the desert waste the home and the farm in the making of our new country let us be more careful in the hooding flooding of roads and in the flooding of lands when a ditch is made atthe at the head of a grain field one should be made at the foot thereof so that I 1 the water may be readily taken away into the proper channel two features of our country stiem to the writer to s nd out firmly viz improper nd over irrigation and the lack of coop co op aeration erat on in the building of roads oads we believe you will bedding be doing a good work by publishing the above with any suggestions you may have to 10 t affer an old timer |