Show pocatello idabo 0 n 1 I would like to have later aaion oo on the quit estfon fon of irrigation I 1 have a piece or of land that thai I 1 intend to plant to lo fruit and as a aho water will have to bo be rall by pow or to irrigate it I 1 like to know the abou amou amount ni lu in gallons that li require bow at each it a the length of time it would lit a naj it terill au UJ alio atmo bet between neen each wa I 1 BOK ben this 0 o thil that I 1 can S n got gel an idea of lite alio lower inri I 1 require quire for that purpose pur and if you could put ne a on it abo he right track to gui get ll 11 1 I 1 bo licad of W K X our correspondents first question ts is one that no ono one can call answer illious Illi out knowing what hat kind of land liu lie has to cultivate sago sage brush laud land lor for the irrigating season reason needs about one turners miners inch of water to tile acre A rul miners ners inch is equal to a free traction I 1 less than nine rations gallons ot of vi water ater VIT per I 1 ral minute nute valley land more loam than gravel only requires halt that thai amount Gravel gravelly lyland land where vegetables tables are growing pleads irrigating every ten tell d days front from the time almo the vegetables appear above aboe ground until they begin to grain a at 1 I a rule needs but two or three good wettings settings wet tings during tho the sc acason askill and by a good wetting wo IVO oat that the land to the depth of 0 the furrows that wore mero plowed before the crop was plan planted tod I 1 should bo be thoroughly soaked just how bow many gallons that hat would mould bo be required to soak theland tho land of our correspondent to that thai depth wo mo cannot tell without knoll k non ing what kind of land it Is but lie he can call ery cry easily by practice just what will bo be required of courso course tit the trees will need less lo 10 and less leisi as a their roots extend into tho the ground if it Is in a crook creek bottom the probability Is tile tha trees will need no irrigation it all r 11 after the first ear wo we do not know of any published work that will do our corroa correll any good we should think to plant arnes this autumn that once in loo tm 0 next spring would le be enough to water thorn and it if tho the land Is alloy testily loamy toll soll probably onre once in three week arid and it cold not talo take a great amounts amount either it our correspondent correspond ert u will ill run a little groove down about two feet ret of rach each row of at trees III fix a a djoe bo boi x lit at the upper end nl and bore bora an inch and is a halt half holo bole in the sluice box boi opposite eack at tees chiv likes ka gets ready to irrigate turn torn on almany as many of these ni as bis big water will supply parting kites gates in tho the box at intervals and aill lo 10 lot the iho streams now flow into ono set of thoo grooves groover ono one ity day then plug up tip lie ha holes and open as many more opposite the lite next sot ot of 0 groomes gro oles and so BO on through hit his harJ lin hit will wil have no trouble by the way war that thai Is the best way to irrigate anyway to leavo live 0 cither titer the blulme boxes blics or tile tho ditches hour about a as far apart as it aill take tho the wilier wa ter to soak in fioura that ginakes a most economical way to irrl kale gate both as regards tho the witter slid and as ai regards the woi k necessary to turn tile tho walar we or on oil tile land tied of 0 course it hoods a little judgment in living the head ditches and in making tho the furrows furrow s front from them to bo be sure and mako make them so that tile m water at orwill will run a and ad at tho the same bitao not rut run too loo rest lust OUT our correspondent can take lake this to com comfort fort him that unless lie ho ircle hicls thing property properly llod in tho the start and tries to wrestle with tile the problem just on main 5 the iho chincie are that avit clr tour four hours lie ho will darrin damn the ilia mn that t at first brat ilig s Irrig irrigation atlon but it if h ho is fixes his sluices and then his bis furrows on oil practical scientific principles iniga tion ion hlll n ill bo be a joy to liln hin and after a week woo klie he will make an all affidavit that it bouts rain |