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Bulletin No. 46 - Earthen Dams, Samuel Fortier

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According to the last census, 92 1/2 per cent of the Utah farms are irrigated. The advancement of agriculture in this State mainly depends upon the water, the available supply of which, in many of the older settled localities of the State, is already wholly utilized during the irrigation period. The future reclamation of new lands in such localities must, therefore, wait on the development of new sources of supply from storage reservoirs, sub-surface supplies, or from a more economical use of the summer flow of the available streams.

From estimates and measurements made by the hydrographers. of the United …

Bulletin No. 44 - Alfalfa Or Lucerne, A. A. Mills

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This bulletin gives the details of trials with alfalfa for the two years of 1894-5 and 1895-6. It also gives a summary of the results for three seasons. Bulletin 31 of the Station gives the details of the year's work not given here. Attention is also called to the work reported in bulletin 40 of this Station, in regard to feeding grasses, mostly alfalfa, to pigs.