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I'M SIAI.LV DRV SK \S(\IS PREDICTED FOR 1M20.Arid ( audition Prevails Over EntirePacific Toast, and Irrigation Exports Plan Relief Measure?*.Fruit growers and farmers generally throughout North Centra! Washington are being warned that the drv-est season in the history of this part of the country is now approachingThere is practically no snow in tiemountains and the streams are all already very low as a result of previoudry years.This arid condition prevails all owthe entire Pacific coast and everv#where irrigation experts are attempt ing to study out mean® for ove,corning it.In California the water supply is so low that electrical power is shu4off from manufacturing e.-tabli.-! emnts except for a few hours evervnight. Ranchers and others me ad opting new methods of irrigation i’ order to conserve what little wate» there is available.One plan that has proven very sue cessful in California is to use th» flooding method if irrigating. In an orchard they make ditches around each tree and fill the space between them with water instead of letting run pa-it. They catch it in these p id dies and allow it to stand intd it aP soaks into the soil.Ranchers on thr dry land- n Wa-h ington might use the early spring a ter to irrigate instead of letting i! run away. With the present mib weather it is practical to irrigate *h» soil heavily much earlier than c- a and then by light cultivation lt;Tea‘« a dust mulch which would retain tin* moisture underneath.Wonderful results have been achieved by Burlingame of Walla Walla, who raises two crops of alfal fa every year on -evrra! hundred acre- of dry land -imply by wintej and early spring- irrigating, utilizing the water that ins ofT when t1 . -now melts for tbi- purpose. It is heli*\»«ithat some such, method must be ad opoted in the drier lands of \ortb Centra1 Washington this vat in o der to prevent a disastrous d tough* the coming season.
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Leavenworth Echo
Leavenworth, Washington, US
Fri, Feb 27, 1920
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