Farm & Home Science Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1940
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Utah Science Volume 1 Number 1 Article 1 3-1940 Farm & Home Science vol. 1 no. 1, March 1940 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utscience Utah Science is produced by Utah State University Agricultural Experiment Station. Recommended Citation (1940) "Farm & Home Science vol. 1 no. 1, March 1940," Utah Science: Vol. 1 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utscience/vol1/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Utah Science by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. &HOmE PWBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE UTAH AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION Vol. 1 Logan, Utah, March 1940 No. 1 ·SERIOUS WATER SHORTAGE PREDICTED PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY UNLESS THERE IS ABUNDANCE OF IMPORTANT FACTOR IN PRECIPITATION BEFORE MAY 1 DETERMINING LABOR INCOME ON THE FARlvI Value of Snow Surveys in Estimating Water Supply Explained Economic Studies Show Close Relationship By GEORGE D. CLYDE Between Farm Income and Crop Yields and Rates of Livestock Production HIS year the February 1 snow The major portion f the irrigat d T mea urement on key courses area in Utah is dependent upon a By W. PRESTON THOMAS throughout the state shows a serious natural-flow water ri o-ht. This de ARM income and ucc s of th potential water shortage. If the pre - pendence emphasize the need f r farm bu ine are clo ely related ent rate of precipitation continues until detailed information pertainingtoth toF crop yield and rate of production May 1 the probable water supply for precipitation and runoff character from live tock. hances for larger in 1940 will not exceed 65 percent of nor istic of water hed in order that come are much greater with high pro mal. If, however, the precipitation be the u ers might adjust their cropping ductivity. The rea on for thi relation tween now and May 1 is normal the program 0 as to make po ible a ship, within limit , is that production w~ter supply will probably be as maximum utilization of the water costs do not increa e proportioI.1ately much as 75 percent of normal. Be upply. Man cannot chano-e the with returns from increa ed yield. cause of the present critical condi weather, the precipitation or the While the extent of this relation hip tion a upplemental now survey will temperature, and these are the fac of crop yields to income varies with tor which are basic to run-off. be made over all courses on March 1, kind of oil, water supply, climate and Therefore, he must modify his pro but actual water-supply foreca ts economics, on most farms the relation will not be made until after the April gram to fit· the natural condition , ship is definite. Higher crop yields give 1 surveys. and an advance knowledge of what higher net returns. the natural conditions are, is nece - Utah is an agricultural state, and Thi relationship of yield to income ary for thi modification. its agriculture is largely dependent wa measured in recent economic stud In the past the irrigator has not upon the extent of its irrigation wa ies conducted by the Department of been so much r:. ncerned with where ter supply. This supply is obtained Agricultural Economics, Utah Agricul the water came from but has been from streams draining the main tural Experiment Station, in Sanpete, intere ted. only in knowing how Wasatch Range which traver e the Sevier and Utah Countie . A co d;u much water wa in the river at the state from north to south, and the to these tudies, farmers in Sanpete and diver ion point. The considerable Uinta Range, which begins at its in Sevier Counties, with crop yield 25 increase in water consumption and tersection with the Wasatch Range percent below the average yields for the dec rea e in water up ply of the and continues east across the tate. the state, received labor earnings ·of past few years have centered atten Of the total water supply available only 195 dollars, while in Utah Coun tion upon the source of the water in Utah during the period April 1 ty, with similarly low yields, labor upply. J'hey have emphasized the to October 1 of each year, approxi earnings were only 91 dollars per farm. need for a detailed study of water mately 80 percent is derived from the (Continued OH page 6 ) watershed above 7,000 feet in ele sheds and stream-flow forecasts. vation. This area constitutes ap Precipitation which falls in the A snow surveying party at work proximately 20 percent of the total form of snow i not easily measured. area of the state, and for the most The i olatioll of our prin~ipal water part is uninhabited and practically shed makes it difficult and imprac inaccessible during the winter sea tical to secure continuou records of son. It is during thi period that the precipitation, yet such data are e -: precipitation, which falls in the form sential in the analysi of watershed of snow, accumulates on the high conditions and the execution of a watersheds and forms the water stor program of watershed management age which later is utilized in the and water use. valleys for irrigation, power and Snow surveys were inaugurated municipal purpose. 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