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<br />,-, <br />U1 <br />o <br /> <br />'" <br />~ <br /> <br />THE HOOO FARM <br /> <br />The Colorado Water Conservation Board has completed its second year <br />at the Hood Farm. Most of the work has centered around improvement and <br />modification of the flo~t gates. <br /> <br /> <br />The North field of this farm is a boarder irrigation setup on five <br />year old Jose Wheatgrass. Three boarders are irrigated at once by time <br />release gates (A.R.S.) which fall at predetermined intervals and back <br />the water up to trigger a pair of float gates. Irrigation sets are <br />made while 11r. Hood is at work in town and a field that once took twelve <br />days to irrigate now takes two and one half days. <br /> <br />As the season progressed we began to have more frequent trouble with <br />the float gates. The problem seemed to be that the aluminum latches <br />began to weather and they would hang up so that the gates wouldn't fall. <br />Ivlany different kinds of latches were tried and discarded. Finally. <br />Mr. Stephen Mashl produced a gate that has operated without fail. We <br />have ordered this modification to all of the gates and will give them a <br />season's try next year. <br />