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-Function of the Division of Irrigation U.

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HE division of irrigation of the bureau of agricultural engineering is not and never has been engaged in promoting the extension of the Irrigated area of the United States, nor has it built the works by which that extension has been effected. Rather, it has had as its prime concern the welfare of those whose lot it has become to farm where no profitable farming is possible with-out the artificial application of water to crops. Generally speaking, that region is the entire group of mountain and Pacific states, with additional areas in the western portions of the central states; and while in the nation's total number of farms the farms on which irrigation is practiced are not a large proportion, they represent a value, exclu-sive of their livestock, of nearly five billion dol-lars, while the investment in irrigation develop-ments alone is more than a billion dollars. The last Zederal census showed that irrigated crops had a value of about $900,000,000, which was more than 11 per cent of the value of all crops in the United States in the census year.

The nation's own investment in the irrigation works constructed by the department of the in-terior has totaled more than $200,000,000; and while the farmers on the government projects have repaid part of this amount, the United States Is still their creditor for a very large remainder, payment of which depends mainly upon the re-turns from farming. Within the past few months this national investment has been largely in-creased by crop, seed, and other short-term loans, by the national credit agencies now grouped under the farm credit administration. Even more re-cently the public works administration and the reconstruction finance corporation have become heavily involved by advances made to community Irrigation enterprises. Moreover, private investors throughout the nation hold the bonds (about

Note: It is doubtful if many are familiar with the valuable work being done by the U. S. department of agriculture's division of irrigation to aid those farmers of the western part of the United States who depend upon irrigation to produce their crops.

The accompanying article explains a few of the many phases of this work that are of direct benefit to these farmers. Aside from those studies designed to make for greater efficiency in the use of irriga-tion water, ways and means of conserving and storing flood waters that now are lost are important parts of this work and of particular value in areas where the normal rainfall is no longer sufficient to care for our irrigation needs.—Editor.

$200,000,000) of irrigation districts, the present depreciated value of which directly reflects the financial hardships of western farmers. Finally, the farms themselves have their mortgage bur-dens. Economical and efficient irrigation practice has therefore an importance much more extensive than that involved in the well-being of the farm-ers themselves and economy and efficiency in that practice is what the division of irrigation is en-deavoring to effect.

Efficient Use of Irrigation Water

The economical use of water in irrigation must be based upon the quantities required by the dif-ferent crops under the difdif-ferent climatic and soil conditions. This was recognized at the outset of the department's irrigation investigations, as was also the fact that current practice was wasteful. The extreme importance of the ascertainment of the amounts of water needed in the irrigation of crops is recognized not alone by progressive farm-ers but also by enginefarm-ers, courts, and legislators who have to allot the West's limited water sup-plies to best possible advantage. In a broad sense such work has ample justification In the assertion often made by reputable authorities on agriculture, the "history names no region where agriculture under irrigation has been permanent." The reason for such lack of permanency elsewhere has been unwise and unscientific irrigation practices result-ing, among other things, in an accumulation of

alkaline salts in the surface soils to an extent reaching toxicity, and the water-logging of the irri-gated soils through the excessive use of water and the lack of either natural or artificial drainage. Nothwithstanding the history of• other nations where irrigation has been practiced, both condi-tions are possible of economic control at least so far as the better, irrigated lands are concerned, and the methods of such control the division of irrigation has been and is now developing. With-out such ascertainments and their widespread ap-plication there is no reason to believe that agri-culture in many sections of the western states will not have the calamitous finality that has marked the history of irrigation agriculture else-where.

The objective of the work under farm irrigation is, briefly, to retain in cultivation such lands, al-ready developed, as will provide economic home units, to determine the farms and areas that are marginal or for other reasons not worth the ex-pense and effort of irrigation, and to maintain the civilization already established as a result of such farming. The increasing of total crop production or the expansion of the irrigated acreage is not its objective. In any land utilization program such as now must be undertaken, the basic essentials so far as the West is involved, are the supplies of water available for irrigation and what they will do. The division already has made ascertainments which will be of great helpfulness in such a pro-gram.

Just as the scarcity of a gravity flow increases the value of the water supply, so does the neces-sity to pump water from underground basins in-crease the delivery cost of irrigation water. Pump-ing is one of the mbst expensive methods of water delivery, but in recent years it has shown the largest increase of any phase of irrigation

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Portable Sprinkling Systems

J. E. Christiansen

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URING the season of 1933 the division of irrigation investigations and practices, col-lege of agriculture, began a study of irrigation by the portable sprinkling systems recently de-veloped. Until about three years ago sprinkling was confined almost entirely to high-value crops on high-priced land, principally to citrus groves and market gardens. Today large areas of rela-tively low-value field crops, including sugar beets, onions and peas, are being irrigated in this man-ner and many new problems have arisen.

Numerous tests on various makes of sprinklers used on portable systems indicate that under usual conditions the distribution of water varies greatly, parts of an area receiving but a small percentage of the average amount applied. The distribution is ihfluenced chiefly by the wind velocity; the pressure and the spacing of the sprinklers. Wind velocities affect the distribu-tion, although not significantly at less than ten miles per hour. According to the tests, better distribution is obtained when the sprinkler line is parallel with the direction of the wind, rather than at right angle to it. The lines need to be spaced closer during strong wind than in calm weather.

Sprinklers may distribute water fairly uniformly In still air under a given pressure; but when the pressure is reduced to a certain amount, most of the water is thrown to the outer edges of the area covered. For instance, a certain sprinkler distributed water fairly uniformly at pressures of 30 pounds or more; but when operat-ing at 20 pounds it applied four times as much water 40 feet from the sprinkler as it did 15 feet from it. The pressure at which the best results were obtained varied with different kinds of sprinklers and with the nozzle sizes, the larger nozzles requiring higher pressures. Since less than 30 pounds per square inch proved inade-quate for most sprinklers tested, this amount is recommended as the minimum pressure to use.

In general, the closer the spacing of the

sprink-ler lines, the more uniform the distribution. With stationary systems, sprinkler lines are generally spaced as far apart as possible for reasons of economy. With portable sprinklers, however, the cost is not greatly influenced by the spacing, ex-cept in the matter of labor in handling the equip-ment, and much closer spacing is permissible. Sprinklers covering an area of 100 feet in diameter are usually spaced 40 feet on the line, and the line is moved laterally about 50 feet. The re-sult is an overlap of 100 per cent or more in each direction and a more uniform application than with any greater spacing. Portable sys-tems permit placing the sprinkler line in differ-ent positions each time the field is irrigated— an additional aid in securing uniform application. The nozzle sizes that can be used and the spacing of sprinklers on the line are somewhat limited by the rate at which the ground will absorb the water.

The sprinkler tests indicated that, during the afternoon, as much as one-third or the water may evaporate before reaching the ground. The evapo-ration loss is influenced by sunshine, tempera-ture, humidity and wind. The loss is relatively low at night and for this reason night irrigation is desirable. In addition to the evaporation loss during the application, some water is lost from the moist soil between irrigations. This loss is confined almost entirely to the upper six inches of soil and depends partly upon the rate of transpiration by the crop and upon the ground shading. In a period of two weeks, bare soil may lose as much as .one inch of water, which may be a considerable portion of the amount ap-plied. Economy is secured by applying each time the amount necessary to obtain the desired pene-tration. Often, inadequate penetration and ex-cessive evaporation losses result from frequent light applications. Long-time studies by this di-vision on numerous crops and soil types indicate that plants grow normally until the moisture con-tent within the root zone is reduced to a certain amount called the "permanent wilting

percent-age;" and nothing is gained by trying to main-tain a so-called "optimum moisture content" by frequent applications.

Pressure Loss in Pipe Lines

The length of portable pipe line that can be economically used depends chiefly upon diameter of pipe, pressure, spacing of sprinklers, and size of nozzles. When water flows through a level pipe, the pressure is gradually reduced by fric-tional losses. These losses depend upon the flow and the pipe diameter. Since the flow in a port-able sprinkler line varies along the line from the discharge of one sprinkler to the total discharge of all the sprinklers, the loss between each two sprinklers is not the same but increases as we proceed toward the pump. For a given size of pipe, spacing of sprinklers, and nozzle sizes, there is a certain length of line and number of sprink-lers beyond which it is not economical to go. If a minimum of 30 pounds pressure is desired at the lower end of the line, the pressure at the pump must be greater than 30 pounds, the amount depending on the number of sprinklers on the line. An increase of one sprinkler on the line may require an increase of as much as three pounds pressure at the pump. As the pressure at the pump increases, the power requirement correspondingly increases, but at a greater rate. For example, if it requires 15 horse power to operate 20 sprinklers it may require 40 horse power to operate 30 sprinklers and maintain the same pressure at the far end of the line. Ordi-narily, in the case of long lines, the required power is not available, and the pressure at the far end of the line is insufficient to give ade-quate distribution.

The discharge of the sprinklers depends upon the pressure and varies along the line. Fre-quently an attempt is made to obtain a more uni-form application by varying the nozzle sizes •along the line. In general, this practice is not recom-mended, since it often results in an even greater variation in application. Under certain

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_CALIFORNIA

_CULTIVATOR

March 31, 1931

Agricultural News Notes of the Pacific Coast

northern California

The Contra Costa county 4-H clubs will hold a fair at Concord, May 19.

The South Fork irrigation district was formed recently in Modoc County. The spinach crop from 300 acres in Sonoma county is being canned at Sonoma.

Gold production in the Auburn dis-trict amounted to about $50,000 in February.

Deciduous fruit trees were in blos-som in Northern California many days earlier than usual.

A bad outbreak of cholera was found in a lot of garbage fed hogs in Lake county recently.

High school students at Auburn made $1,175.07 on 19 agricultural projects carried on this year.

Mendocino county sheepmen have better than a 100 per cent crop of lambs and plenty of fine feed.

Grape growers hope that the vine-yard experiment station at Oakville, Napa county, can be reopened.

The office of the North Bay produc-tion credit associaproduc-tion is now located In the court house at Santa Rosa.

The tenth annual wool show will be held in conjunction with the ram sale at Sacramento, May 23 and 24.

Several new buildings are under consideration for the branch college of agriculture at Davis, Yolo county. The S. P. is surveying a new right of way near Kennett, Shasta county, where the new dam is to be located. Government experts say that Me--snow oa Lassen peak has more water in it than the heavier fall last year. Pear growers of Solano county have Installed 22 traps to test the ,effect of cultivation as a control of thrips. The Sacramento valley leads the rest of the state in number of appli-cations for short-time and livestock loans.

G. L. _{Philips, university farm, Davis,} has found that the Bush Tartarian cherry is a good pollenizer for sweet cherries.

Labor agitators are reported to be working in Mendocino county with Lake county to be their next point of attack.

The annual Gravenstein apple show at Sebastopol, Sonoma county, will be omitted this year, according to pres-ent plans.

Growers of Butte county are inter-ested in increasing the supply of seed of a new medium grained rice called the Calady.

The United prune growers made its second offering of 1933 French pruaes at prices one cent a pound over the opening scale.

The Cloverdale, Mendocino county, citrus fair, which has never failed to make a profit, lived up to its standard again this year.

The Newcastle fruit growers' asso-ciation, Placer county, recently bor-rowed $158,000 from the federal bank for cooperatives.

Smith Brothers, San Rafael, raised their average production of butterfat from 27 pounds per cow in December, 1932, to 38 pounds in January, 1934.

Farmers in Northern California have been asked to plow fire guards around their grain and to remove grass around buildings in order to reduce fire hazard.

Central California

The cannery at Salinas is employing 300 persons in a short run on spinach. The cotton pickers' strike last fall cost individuals and Kern county $192,404.

Kings county has 13.,959 acres of grapes with Muscats leading with 10,-408 acres.

The snow is not as deep as usual In the high Sierras and its water con-tent is low.

Peter Lashley, Clovis, Fresno coun-ty, has Kanota oats nearly four and a half feet high.

Thrips are out early in Tulare coun-ty and citrus growers are already dust-ing their trees.

A rabbit drive at Guernsey, Kings county, netted about 3,000 bunnies and three coyotes.

The first cotton was planted in San Joaquin valley in 1865 with seed brought from Mexico.

Of the 1,096 cows tested in Kings county in February, 204 produced more than 40 pounds butterfat each.

The milk check for Tulare county in February was $156,267.89; the kigh-est for that month in four years.

The Gustine Orchard company, Mer-oed county, has installed a Diesel en-gine for pumping irrigation water.

Navel orange growers of the Porter-ville district, Tulare county, received $1,350,000 for their last winter's crop.

Withdrawals from membership 'in the prune and apricot association this season were the smallest in live years. Shipment of the excellent crop of lettuce from the Pajaro valley began late in March, much earlier than usual.

Tulare county grain growers con-template the purchase of a coopera-tive seed cleaning and dusting ma-chine.

Addition of new herds to the Mer-ced county association brought the cows on test there up to 2,109 in Feb-ruary.

A carload of carbon bisulphide has been used for rodent control in the Terra Belle-Ducor section of Tulare county.

A rabbit drive near Clovis, Fresno county, netted about 1,000 rabbits, while one at Manteca, San Joaquin county, took over 2,000 bunnies.

Because of extra high quality the Danish Creamery Association received a premium on nearly all of the 7,813,-960 pounds of butter made last year. A. H. Wolfsen, who farms 10,000 acres of grain in the Tulare Lake dis-trict, is trying out the movable sprink-ler type of irrigation on part of It. Three irrigation districts of Kings and Fresno counties have asked for 95,000 acre feet of the water to be dis-tributed by the central valley project.

It is claimed that Communist labor agitators plan to resume activity in the San Joaquin valley as soon as vegetable crops are ready for harvest. Cloyd McCord, Future Farmer of Hanford, showed purebred Suffolk sheep, Duroc Jersey pigs and Angus baby beef at South San Francisco, March 25-27.

During April and May the San Joa-quin light and power corporation will supply unlimited electricity to its cus-tomers and charge them only what they paid in March.

Southern California H. V. Wall is planting ten acres of pecans at Moorpark, Ventura county. The Mojave desert will have about 30,000 turkeys ready for the fall mar-ket.

There were 40 citrus groves in Venf tura county infested with red scale in 1933.

L. E. Speer, Palo Verde valley, cut 12 acres of alfalfa for hay on Feb-ruary T he 28.

annual livestock show will be held at Perris, Riverside county, March 30-31.

Most of the members for the South-ern California egg industry board have been selected.

Riverside will hold a flower show April 20-22, with a garden tour as an added attraction.

Imperial and Coachella valley to-mato growers will use lug boxes this year and save money.

Workmen digging a trench at On-tario found Bermuda grass roots eight feet below the surface.

Lompoc valley, Santa Barbara coun-ty, will have close. to 5,000 acres of sugar beets this season.

Several citrus groves in the Covina district, Los Angeles county, have changed hands recently.

The Riverside walnut growers' pack-ing house was destroyed by fire on March 15; damage, $40,000.

Highway 64 is to be built directly Into Indio, Riverside county, and will thus avoid the dangerous Box canyon wash.

The annual meeting of the Hemet walnut growers' association on March 31 will be attended by about 200 members.

A small slug known as agriolimax agrestis recently made its appearance in a citrus grove at Duarte, Los An-geles county.

Apricots blossomed at Hemet, Riv-erside county, much earlier than usual and a good crop is expected if frosts do not occur.

J. M. Wakefield, Niland, Imperial county, shipped 20,000 pounds of wool recently, clipped from sheep being fat-tened for market.

Los Angeles county produced 119,865 bags of Baby Lima beans, 44,035 bags of standard Limas and 11,654 bags of blackeye beans in 1933.

Ventura county has 1,115,590 Valen-cia orange trees; 159,785 Navel or-anges; 1,197,752 lemons and 33,719 miscellaneous variaties.

The rebuilt and remodeled Palo Verde Valley Creamery at Blythe, Riv-erside county, now claims to be the largest creamery in the county.

E. W. Rickard, Hemet, Riverside county, has been appointed dried fruit buyer for the California Packing Cor-poration in Southern California.

The Thumm Ranch at Lakeside, San Diego county, has 40 acres of cac-tus from which large shipments of prickly pears are made each fall.

Thousands of experimental plants from all parts of the world are grow-ing in the acclimatization garden near Torrey Pines Park, San Diego county. The Passion Fruit coop., Vista, San Diego county, recently contracted to furnish juice to wineries at prices which will net the growers about six cents a pound for fruit.

The Coast and General Nevada is trying to get federal aid for control of grasshoppers.

Oregon produces 83 per cent of the filberts grown in the United States.

Salt River valley will have shipped about 80,000 spring lambs by May 15. Idaho produced 29,756,352 pounds of butter last year, a slight increase over 1932.

Sheep are being sheared in Idaho fully a month ahead of normal sea-sons.

New potatoes from Hawaii were on sale in Pacific Coast markets late in January.

Curry county, Oregon, does not grow nearly enough small fruits for local consumption.

Resident of California consumed an average of 153 pounds of meat per person last year.

Last year's California state fair was the fourth largest in the country in point of attendance.

Ranchers of Lovelock valley in Ne-vada have asked their local stores not to handle butter substitutes.

The maximum pack of asparagus hu California this year has been set at 1,900,000 cases by the A. A. A.

Several springs in Nevada increased their flow of water as much as 1ve Per cent after the recent earthquake. Florida truck crops suffered from the cold on March 11 with damage to green beans estimated to be 50 per cent,

The North Pacific grain growers re-cently repaid federal loans totaling $500,000 which were made last sum-mer.

Due to insistence of the trade the California almond growers' exchange is taking orders already for this year's crop.

The government recently asked for bids on 4,500 pounds of oleomargarine to feed the prisoners at McNeil Island.

Livestock men of the Klamath Falls district, Oregon, plan to brood 30,000 g

turrakseshyos ppteors b. e used in controlling

Due to the severe weather in the winter of 1932-33 Utah did not ship one car of peaches and only 18 cars of apples last year.

Turkey raisers of McCulloch coun-ty, Texas, expect to sell about 60,000 eggs to northern hatcheries at from 15 to 25 cents an egg.

Vegetable crops in the Rio Grande valley, Texas, were severely damaged by cold on March 17-18; citrus also was somewhat harmed.

Although much wheat land in West-ern Nevada has been rented to the government, the planted acreage will probably be much increased this sea-

son-Honoring the return of the grape to a prominent place in agriculture, the California state fair next fall will include a Harvest Moon and Grape festival.

Although the Yuma Valley, Arizona, has been growing potatoes commer-cially but a short time it is achiev-ing a reputation as an early produc-ing district.

The Western Cattle Marketing As-sociation has been changed to the Pa-cific States Livestock Marketing As-sociation with headquarters at 74 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco.

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unction of The Division of Irrigation U. S. Department of Agriculture

(Continued from Page 155) ment. As a result, in many valleys ground water levels have receded, wells have been deepened again and again, and pumps have been lowered in the wells until the consequent in-crease in the cost of pumping has caused a large reduction in the amount of water pumped to unit areas. This additional cost has resulted de-mands for further improvemenfs in methods of sinking and equinping wells and in installing and operating the pumps best suited to specific con-ditions. Although there has been a great advance in the knowledge of pumping for irrigation, many pumping-plant installations have been made un-der the direction of the farmers them-selves, some of whom were not fa: miliar with the conditions necessary to secure economical outfits suited to their needs. As a result, many such installations have not performed effi-ciently. What the division of irrigation has undertaken to do is to assist farm-ers in chosing the right kinds of Pumps for the kinds of pumping to be done, to describe proper methods of install-ing them, and to point out best meth-ods of operating them, all with the purpose of reducing costs and increas-ing efficiencies.

In the important field of pumping, the division now has in progress a set of experiments which seek to deter-mine the efficacy and practicability or spreading water discharged during pe-riods of heavy rainfall by streams de-bouching upon gravel cones at their mouths, so as to effect the replenish-ment of the underground storage. These experiments, conducted in Southern California where the threat of depletion is most serious, have al-ready had the effect of extending the practice to sections not previously aware of its possibilities.

Agriculture is still the basis of mod-ern civilization, and the adoption of any policy which would serve to re-tard its progress or 'weaken its seem ity cannot fail to have its final re-flection upon the prosperity and happi-ness of all the people. The agriculture of the West is as dependent upon skill-ful and scientific irrigation as upon the fertility of its soils. Despite the diffi-culties of irrigation the 1929 value of irrigated subtropical fruits was almost four-fifths of the value of the nation's entire subtropical fruit crop; irrigated grapes contributed two-thirds of the value of the entire grape crop; irri-gated orchard fruits, about three-eighths; irrigated nuts, five-three-eighths; irrigated sugar crops, nearly half; ir-rigated grains and seeds other than the cereals, nearly one-fifth; irrigated hay crops, one-sixth; and irrigated vegetables, nearly one-seventh. Farm Radio Program

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HE daily noonday radio program for April 2 to 6, inclu-sive, held under the auspices of the agricultural extension service in co-operation with KFI is as follows:

April 2: "The Cost of Oak Root Fungus in Citrus Orchards," A. G. Sal-ter.

April 3: "Approved Hopi Lima Bean Seed for 1934 Planting," F. H. Ernst.

April 4: "Economic Advantages of Windbreak -Protection," H. E. Wahl -berg.

April 5: "Efficiency in Citrus Prun-ing Practices," W. H. Williams.

April 6: "Ground Squirrel Control," E. S. Kellogg.

Feed Dealers Convention Slated For San Francisco

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HE tenth annual con-vention of the California hay, grain and feed dealers association, will be held in room 237, Merchants Exchange building, San Francisco, April 5-7. Dis-cussions of the various codes relating to the industries represented will be the features of the meeting. Arlo V. Turner, Modesto is president and I. J. Strommes, secretary of the association which has some 400 members.

Portable prinkler Systems (Continued from Page 155) tions, it may be desirable to use smaller nozzles on four or five sprink-lers next to the pump, but larger noz-zles should never be used on a few sprinklers on the far end of the line. The length of a single line of four-inch pipe, with sprinklers spaced 40 feet apart, should be limited to about 1,000 feet, depending, of course, upon the size of the nozzles. When a field is of such dimensions that a greater length of line is required, it is more economical to use a double line. The supply ditch is then located through the center of the field and two lines are run in opposite directions from the pump. With the same power equipment, a greater number of sprinklers can be used and a more uniform application secured at a low-er cost plow-er acre inch of watlow-er ap-plied. Less time is lost in moving the pipe, and about 75 per cent mo're land can be irrigated in the same length of time.

Suggestion for

Reducing Operating Costs

Another method of lowering the cost of operating portable sprinkler sys-tems is to eliminate the necessity of

employing two men continuously to move the pipe. On most soils and for most crops, a depth of four to six inches of water or more must be ap-plied to secure adequate penetration when the moisture content of the soil is near the permanent wilting per-centage. Water can be applied at a rate such that 12 hours or more will be required for applying this amount. The pipe could be moved either once or twice every 24 hours. If this work could be done by men employed for other purposes, the total operating cost would be only slightly more than the power cost. Probably the great-est difficulty of such an operating schedule would be that of getting on the ground to move the pipe after an application of four inches or more. With some, soils, one may have to wait several hours before moving the pipe. One might, how-ever, operate for 12 to 16 hours, say from about sundown and until some time in the forenoon, and then shut down for the rest of the day. The Pipe could be moved just before start-ing up in the evenstart-ing. Such an ar-rangement may require a greater in-vestment in equipment to cover a given area, but the saving in operat-ing costs more than offsets the in-terest and depreciation on the addi-tional equipment. An addiaddi-tional ad-vantage is that the evaporation loss is reduced to a minimum.

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NE of the most unique and distinctive forms of enter-tainment as well as one which is !..e. coming increasingly popular is the breakfast party. The time is arranged to suit the convenience of guests, which usually means a leisurely ten or 11 o'clock start. Any particularly ambitious persons who prefer to arise earlier can have a cup of coffee at home to sustain them until time for the party.

The hostess must prepare for Pro-digious appetites. Suppose some of

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the men have been digging in their gardens since dawn, as is quite likely in a garden loving community. What quantities of ham and eggs they will be able to dispose of! The Easter breakfast, of course, includes this de-lectable American dish.

The table should be attractively decorated, and nothing is more lovely for this time of year than spring flow-ers. Daffodils or tulips are particular-ly effective for a morning party. They aro fresh and gay and give an air of cheer and welcome to the table.

If yellow flowers are used, have a combination fruit cup of orange and grapefruit sections at the places when the guests sit down.

Let the main course immediately fol-low the fruit. This should consist of great platters of thinly sliced ham with fried eggs, the yellow and white making a delightful contrast against the golden brown of the ham. With this course, serve hot muffins and coffee.

Graham Muffins

One cup bread flour, 1 cup graham flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup milk, 1 egg (well beaten), 3 table-spoons melted shortening. Mix and sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add beaten egg and milk and mix well. Add melted shortening. Bake in well greased muffin tins in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) 20 to 25 minutes. This makes 12 muffins. Rolled Oats Muffins

Two cups rolled oats, 1% cups sour milk, 14 cup crisco, % cup sugar, 1 egg (well beaten), 1 teaspoon soda, % teaspoon salt, 1 cup flour. Soak rolled oats in sour milk over night. In the morning add remaining ingredients.; fill greased iron gem pans with mix-ture and bake in a hot oven 20 min-utes. Makes about 15 muffins.

Date Muffins

Two cups flour, 2 tablespoons sugar,

1 egg, 1 cup milk, _{teaspoon salt,} 4 teaspoons baking powder, 2 table-spoons melted shortening, % cup chopped dates. Sift flour, salt, sugar, baking powder. Stir in egg, milk and melted shortening. Add dates. Pour Into greased muffin tins and bake in hot oven (375 degrees F.).

Fun for the Kiddies

Children love to hunt for anything, but when the hidden treasure consists of Easter eggs with extra favors in the form of bunnies and chicks thrown in, there is no end to the joy. As soon as the youngsters have gathered, give them .each a little basket and turn them loose to find the eggs and the favors that have been tucked everywhere just out of sight. When the returns are all in, have them count the contents of the baskets. Each small colored egg counting one, larger egg, five; chocolate eggs, two,

Child's Alphabet Quilt No. 109-W Pattern 109-W, 25c

Here is an interesting quilt for a boy or a girl's bed. The Alphabet Quilt is both instructive and amusing for chil-dren. Each of the 12 blocks is a differ-ent subject—and they include many in-teresting characters and afford much amusement to the young child. The em-broidered blocks when set together with either white or colored plain blocks form a quilt 42x56 inches. The entire quilt should be embroidered. The tor) of the quilt, when completed, may be used as a light spread before quilting. This is pattern No. 109-W.

We offer the complete pattern of 12 blocks for 25c—or a combination of this complete pattern and our new Needleart Vogue Booklet "D" for 40c. Prina, 317 Central Avenue, c/o California Cultivator, Los Angeles. (Two weeks for delivery.)

March 31, 1934

and bunnies, chicks and ducks, ten. Whoever has th3 best score receives the prize—which should be something suitable for the occasion.

After the hunt there will be time for some games. Any of the follow-ing can be played indoors or out.

Favorite Games

The old, familiar game of "Button, button, who's got the button?" can be played with a small candy egg in place of a button. It will provide amusement for a few minutes, acting as 'sort of a filler-in between other

games.

No party is complete without a blindfold game. For this one, have large sheets of plain paper fastened to the wall with thumb tacks. Blind-fold each child in turn and let him try to draw an egg with a crayon on the paper. This is harder than It sounds, and the child who draws the most perfect egg deserves the prize that is awarded.

Bulletin of Songs and Poems

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UR March bulletin of old songs and cowboy poems is ready for you. Merely send 10 cents as dues and a copy will be mailed to you. (Six months' membership, 50 cents and save 25 cents postage and dues.)

Selections in the March issue are as follows: Billy Vanero, When It's Night Time in Nevada, A Frontier Graveyard, Shanty Boy, Kansas Boy, Wild Boy, Blue Yodel Number 6,

Broken Down Cowboy, Ragtime Cow-boy Joe, Barnyard Ballad, Sadie My

Lady, Waiting for a Train, Railroad Corral, Pistol Packin' Papa, Old Timer, Arizona, Brown Eyed Lee, I Got a Gal at the Head of the Hollow, Law of the Yukon.

Address Prina, 317 Central Avenue, c/o California Cultivator, Los Angeles. (The only 1933 copies available are September, October, November and December. Ten cents each.)

Wind Blown Tulips There never will be any question of "which way the wind blows" here. This young miss is delighted with the breeze, and says she would make a lovely, if not a talkative companion in any girl's room. This is something decidedly new and dif-ferent in quilts. You'll find it ever so easy to do. A row of blocks, like the en-larged one shown, march across the mid-dle of the quilt. Below is a field of flowers made from a large piece of print. The trees are outline embroidery. The wind-blown tulips in the scalloped bor-ders are especially pleasing. A complete chart, with outlines and directions is number C792, 20c. Prina, 317 Central Avenue, c/o California Cultivator, Los Angeles. (Two weeks for delivery.)

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PUMPING PLANT TEST

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Name District Date

Land Location Trans. Loc

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

BERKELEY. CALIFORNIA.

OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Box 180

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PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAVIA tN-r-oF..p_asTAG^E. $-Sao

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Colorado Ag ri c u 1 tu ra 1 Experiment Station

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UNITED STATES DEPARMU:T OF .AGFICUL'IURE Bureau of Agricultural Engineering

DIVISION OF IRRIGLTION

222 Post Office Building Berkeley, Calif.

Lail Address: J.0. Box 180 March 21, 1932.

1E1 oRAI\ixTri FOR MR. NITCHELSON:

-v4ith reference to 1:,r. Rohwer's letter of 'Larch 17, I have

not completed my study of ownership of drainage waters,which was terworarily dropped last July in order to undertake other work,

but plen to resume it during the present spring. My information

on State laws governing drainage waters at present is far from complete, and I am not yetposition to say definitely what

the several requirements are. This of course will be completed

when the return-flow project is resumed.

The lar:is and regulations governing pumping will also be

studied when opportunity arises. This study was requested by

the 'aestern Irrigation and Drainage Research Association last

year. Court decisions will necesserily be included.

The situation stated by Mr. Rohwer, that "the man who has

developed his lend by pumping has no legal assurence that his neighl-)or will not put in a pumping plant adjoining, end thereby reduce the ground watr level to a point which makes it unprofitable for either of them to pump for irrigation" is unfortunately true

in many sections where pumping is prevalent. It has grown to

serious proportions in various sections of Celifornia, notably

in Tulare end Sante Clara counties. To forestall such situations

several States have passed statutes requiring applications to pump for irrigation to be made to the State in the seme manner as

applications to divert surfece waters. Oregon, New 1:exico, and

Texas have such statutes, and other States have had the problem before tls.eir leA7islatures.

(signed) Neils A. Hutchins Irrigetion Economist

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

DIVISION OF IRRIGATION

Li'. Carl Rohwer

Colorado Agriculturalhxperiment Station

Fort Collins, Colorado.

222 POST OFFICE BUILDING BERKELEY, CALIF. MAIL ADDRESS: P. O. Box 180

Larch 22, 1932

Dear 7r. Rohrer:

I have your letter of ::arch 17 with regard to ownership

of underground water or the right to pump water from underground sources.

After discussing this matter with :r. Hutchins, he consented

to prepare a memorandum on the subject, copy of which is enclosed. Very truly yours,

Division of Irrigation

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A. 2. : itchelson

COOPERATIVE

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE INVESTIGATIONS

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OREGON STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF SOILS

Corvallis, Ore., Mar. 8, l93. Mr. Carl T. Rohwer,

Associate Irrigation Engineer, Fort Collins, Colo.

Dear Mr. Rohwer:

I trust the the letters copies of which are enclosed will get you the information asked for in your letter of Feb. 24.

The delay was due to my absence on a trip to Medford.

If I can be of any further assistance do not fail to call on me. Yours very truly,

17/. i?

M. R. Lewis,

Corvallis, Ore., Ver. 8, 1.9.3.

Xi. R. S. Jverstreet, Idaho Power Co.,

Deer Yr. Overstreet:

htoie a reqkkect from Mr. Carl T. Fohwer, 4_ssoiate Irrigation

Engineer, lik,aeb.A of kgrIc4ltarel '::rgitIlsring, Fort Collirr, r;olD. for .present costs or electric eery for trrigF.tion i)afrpine in Ecstcrr Creror. tie deeires

thie infomation Sr. cornection t ,E.overnment Farmc?rs. on Irrigation

PUmidr;f9

iii yciu be so &toad aso !lend him cocies of r)ur present Dower

ached:11es lit;able to 1,.ric3.,1.)n kumploc toether with necessary raKulations

ana inatvActions? I tji Appfoi'te yQui. doing

I truet titat things are not oin too baaly iL SdOlo Power Co. territory.

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iT.ote.rn Jregon Light ."-.nd Power Co., Baker, are.

Gontlamen: Attention Mr. Lanning.

I have a roust from W. Carl T. Rohwer, Associate Irrigation

Engilieer, 3urea4 of Agricultural Engineering, Port Collins, Colo. for current rates for electric enerv for pumping in E9stern Oregon. IV.

ortwer wants t.lio information in ,zonnection with a rvision of the U. ! . Dept.

of &griculture, Farmers' Bulletin on i:unping for irrigation.

I rill appreolat.e it very much if you pill sPrd him a coj;y of your present sohdules for poaer for pumping together with any necessary instructions as to the availabilitj of rates etc.

'3 1th best personal regards, I ma,

fours very truly,

cc Carl T. Rohwer X. P. Lewis,

Corvallis, Ore., :.".ar. 8, 19Z25. dr. Phil T. iortnar, County Agent, Baker, ure. Dear Fortner:

I Ilavr3 a request from r. Carl T. Fohwer, Aseocilte irrigation Pureau f gricql.tIral Engineering, Fo-t Collins, olo. for in— formation as to the present cost of dritling velis jr :;asteril Oregon.

He asks for '.ae cost of drilling exciL;sive of U-,e cost of casiag. Can

you give him tiiie information from the prices paid durin?: t/4 during the

past year or secure it from '!,illiams? If you will ao 30 and write him

directly I ill appreciate it very Email.

King vicoe(Lm& tht, soction of your K;ItURI report having to cio

with well drilling in the county. t is too bad Chanaler aid not put in a

larger casing. ur.ping *ell Ai his ilacu wo'ld oe worth a lot of money.

e

Certain of the dirct flow or propellor type uii will bring nearly a

secund—foot ou-, of a six inch hole. Perhvi)s Then prices get up a little it Nould pay to perforate that well and put in a pump or perhai,E they will be willing to put in a larger one. I would very much appteciate

having copies of the logs of the wells Williams has put down if you can secure them for me.

/ours very truly,

cc Carl T. Rohwer M. R. Lewis,

January 18, 1933

Uemorandum for - . Ictauchlin:

1r. 'c1ter:cackard was in the office today in search of data showing segre7ation of pumping costs according to

lifts, method of diobvibu‘lms4, oUt:. X rs s 1U .L' so s..1 Lye LI 1 if I

only Yr. Code's Colorado bulletin, other available pumping bulletins not sharing such detnils; in fact, I doubt that 1;r. Code's figures went fflr enough to satisfy him.

I an making this notation of his inquiry with the idea

that it nay lead you to direct the proposed revision of Fenner'' Bulletin No. 1404, Pumping from iells for irrigation, so as to show cost figures in considerable detail.

Very truly yours,

F. Ewing

Associate Irrigation conomist

IN YOUR REPLY PLEASE

REFER TO FILE No

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

DIVISION OF IRRIGATION

Mr. Carl Rohwer

Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station Fort Collins, Colorado

Dear r. Rohwer:

222 POST OFFICE BUILDING

BERKELEY. CALIF.

MAIL ADDRESS: P. 0. Box 180

January 26, 1933

Enclosed is a memorandum from la'. Ewing, which is self-explanatory. This suggestion is a good one to keep in mind in connection with the collection of data on pumping.

Very truly yours, Division of Irrigation

BY

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Endl cc-Lewis

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 'BUREAU OFAGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

BERKELEY. CALIFORNIA. OFFICIAL BUSINESS

PENALTY FOR PRIVATE us5: TO -AVOID 'n1.7h7?,1"'e.f.••Pe'eM15...,

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Colorado ..gricultural Experiment Station

Fort Collins, Colorado

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POMONA PUMP CO.

Here are two sheets showing tabulation of pumping plant 1,erformance of pumps owned by the Modesto Irrigation District.

The first sheet shows the yearly tests made on Pomona Pumps. These tests show a very gratifying record for austained efficiency, the loss being less than one point per year per pump. These pur:ps operate almost continuously for from six to eight months each year.

The second sheet shows the efficiency of all pumps owned by the district, also the year in which the pump was in-stalled, the operating head and the horse cower consumption at the meter. A study of this tabulation will show that the average efficiency of all of their pumps is about 511';.,

excluding Pomonas. Average efficiency of Pomonas in 1928 was 60.4. It has been impossible for us to get the data on the orformance of any of their pumps except Pomonas since 1.28.

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A6.7

30.4 -.57 57 _ _ - 1-2. 3. .4. _ ___ _L. 'prop in ompared his avprms) efficiency with 5. 6. 7. 1275 1245_4 No t st 42. 30.3 -63 66 . yew e 1182 29.7 56 it h

FORM 199A

POMONA PUMP CO.

The attached sheet, showing tests run on Pomona Pumps owned by the Fresno City Tat3r Department, indicate very clearly the sustained efficiency of the pumps. You will note that these pumps were designed for a capacity of 700 gallons I.er minute operating under a total head of 140 feet. The

efficiency guarantee when new was 68',40. After four years of

almost constant service, the pumps show almost exactly the same efficiency as was guaranteed when they were new and have fallen off very slightly in capacity. This is due to the special uesign of the Pomona Pump Runners, which are adjusible from the sufELce to take up any 'ear that may coma on the runners.

These pumps, as well as those installed at Dos Palos, Modesto and Turlock, have had no repairs on them since installation.

Hp._ s at r Ser ice J i - ,1 r '. 5 15 23 4 Station #1C1 o' !ht .1^1- ifornia 1,

Guarantee Test ci/28 Test 9/29 To /32

--- ___T -by .1°41911_ by by • ri..loaq n

C- lif. later (ervic ..______ .lif. ..a.d..z ater ----or vi cl, -L .., ght i'Power _. . 3o. 1 I - d„ . 'IOU _{121 _} 10 ' _141.7 I G. P. . 700 300 600 670 ,i _{1 I} Effic•ency 68/0 ₄₈₁ 451 —BP.. 36. 6. i5. Head 140 1 , • ) 145 1'3.2 Pp B _{G.P.11 700 646 ' 55} 644 1 -,_Effic- ency _ 63% _48%L.5% • H.P. 36.2 .6.4 !

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Aver4e gal onage . per minute 4 years oper4t10n 490 Gal.

Average hea( " _36.9

Averme eft ciency ,# t. ,f " _67%

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Ern() enoy 137 ft. -68% ;

1

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Loss n 4 y_{_ _} :ars of 20 g'. llons or 5 allon$ Per' iear Loss jri 4 y

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ars in effi iency,1% or

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, . Theselpumps -365-Idays have f4)erat er yel.r.. i an iverag_{_ 4} of 12, ho u -I per clay -I -I_ - I _ ._ _. _____ . 1 1 . _. .

FORM 199A

POMONA PUMP CO.

The attaQhed sheet showing the performance of Pomona

Pumps on the Ds _{Palos drainage District was compiled}

from tests made by :Jr. Frank Davis, who is a graduate

of

the Colorado Agricultural College.

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inst. a,

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e increase e man his nd gallonag nufact4rer' ted with year's resu faCturer's to_ the. guaran hi ope , ts are

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i 11.5 _{_ 19.2} .1_61 10.9 10.6 -_._ -a. - y .of. Tests 1 1 ittS DOS iLf 4 e b PAW) _WO _ era 011ie DRAINpiGE alrItip Davis, BugtnpAr. DI Stockton, i

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MIC _s 1:1, ... _ „ 6, _eloitemeat alit'. a Dr I weft inata ptstri .d...1):; t ____ -of ac tion. , i"Olact -ptanca , of _ . per s _ — _ s consocutlive n aide now de-, age per minute

tal--avaraiim .-H.P. input! to • at aln averse, nay bf 59.51% 4 olif8$4 motor -, the motor, • ----ranle of 647 tot 3.]. pump-y -of very gratify-- 1 1 pe formance aran es Is ar s-alc:. ---en i ---entiela ompa ed aglanst an -euTve as al, these pumps

ow am average -ettr -the eason of opera..

FUOViE tt CC), Ci-,k1.4';0-111EW YORK NO. '34s a

After 5 days, return to POMONA PUMP CO., 206 E4 ,gailliett41103t.,

POROXXXXLM%

SO2 Van 71qs, Fresno, Calif.

Mr. Carl Rohwer,

Associate Irrip7. Engrineer. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Fort Collins,

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

BERKELEY. CALIFORNIA. OFFICIAL BUSiNESS

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Mr. Carl Rohwer,

Colo. Agr. Exp. Station, Fort Collins, Colorado

PIZNALTY FOR rRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAYWE'airse,F.41411.44iGriTZ

JAN 6°P4

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Division of Irrigation

Mr. Carl Rohwer,

Colo. AET. Exp. Station, Fort Collins, Colorado

222 POST OFFICE BUILDING BERKELEY, CALIF. MAIL ADDRESS: P. O. Box 180

January 11, 1934.

Dear Mr. Rohwer:

With reference to your outline for a proposed bulletin on "Irrigation Wells", I am enclosing a copy of Yr. Marr's letter of January 8 in which he has suggested various topics that could be included.

Very truly yours,

Division of Irrigation,

BY

Paul A. Ewing,

Assoc. Irrigation Economist. Enclosure

P. 0. Box 835, Boise, Idaho

January 8, 1934

Ir. W. mcLaughlin, Chief,

Division of Irrigation

Bureau of kgrioultural F4ngineering P. 0. Box 180

Berkeley, California.

Dear Llr.

McLaughlin:-In accordar!ce with your letter to Ar. 3ohwer of January 5 I am submitting herewith suggestions relative to ti)e outline for a Farmer's Bulletin on Irrigation :ells.

There are a few sub-topics that °add be added to Isir.

Rohwer's outline. Possibly it is already t.e intention to

discuss these =titters under some of tie broader headings. I have in mind that some information, or advice aUould be /num on the fialuwing:

Suitability of well water for irrization Lde.ivacy of well supply for irri.Ation Desirable depth of well

4)esirable diameter of well

Type of well as suggested by log of test will

Atlowable pumping head for irrigation, or permissible depth to water.

I suggest also that the different types of wells used for

irrigation should be briefly described.

Very truly yoars,

James C. Marx'

Jannt.ry 20. 1934

itr.

Gide Divide)

os Irrigotioa,

of Amleolturel logineorIng,

Pic 180

lorteloy,

Dour M.

Ifolstuetlins

I rwoolvIrd your letter emoleeinr Mr. Merris

01011=ate mwy oeetlias for a proposal 'bullet'...n on irrig&tion

mons. I bore looked *vs? Wry Lisree emagistions and shell

ksirp tins Its send

If it is deutcied

to propos tho InUotin.

Irpry truly yours,

Assoatate Irrigttion

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

clvisioN oF irmiGATIoN

OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Box 180

.. r•1 1 7,

c\N-PENALTY FCR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PA)A101eNraraErrtherees.

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4f•K / E< --1. .—,__

Co BET 1 4c(1 • ,

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-1\\W. Carl Rohwer

Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station Fort %dolling', Colorado .

IN YOUR REPLY PLEASE

REFER TO FILE No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

DIVISION OF IRRIGATION

222 POST OFFICE BUILDING

BERKELEY. CALIF.

MAIL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 180

October 13, 1934 Memorandum for Messrs. Carl Rohwer, J. C. Marr, and M. R. Lewis.

I am enclosing copy of a memorandum prepared by Major Stout and submitted to Nis. McLaughlin under date of August 27, on the subject of "Distribution of Efficiencies of Irrigation Pumping Plants."

to you.

Enc.

It occurred to me that this information may be of interest

Very truly yours, Division of Irrigation

August 27, 1934

Memorandum for Mr. 114cLaughlin:

SUBJECT: Distribution of Efficiencies of Irrigation Pmmping

RtietdENCE: Blue-print report entitled "Pumpage of Ground Water for IrrilTition in the lorokelumne Ares, California, 1927 to 1933". U.S.G.S.

By Arthur . Piper.

The accompanying diagram of "Distribution of Efficiencies of iumptrig Plants" was prepared from date cp,enring in trials on pages

14-24 of REFIZENCE. The purpose of the Diagram WAS to satisfy my own

curiosity ss to how such a diagram would look. The purpose of

this Memorandum ic to insure that the result nay not be lost to the record, and to mske it available for suggestion to nambers of thir, tivistom Mho mar be working alone simile!. lines.

More plants *owed OR efficienc-j of 44 percent then any other

one percentage. This pr.reentage was therefore taken as the middle

one of a group of five, and other groups were made to conform to this one.

It Is submitted that a diagram of this nature may be studied to advantage in the light of all of the obtainable relevant facts end circumstances.

Very truly yours,

O. V. r. :tout Irrigation ialgineer

CD rific:iee.cy 1cs thau 19; -: t-t _.5 -ffi0Aincy 1V-23,

5

a

= a 1 1 -friciciwy = 1:3)-Ze3 1 -fficiwicy = 34-38 1,fficiuncy = 39-43% fricivncy = 44-48,;

-fficiency Efficiency Efficiency

greater

than

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