Show Irrigation Pump Can Fight Tight Tires Fires M 4 44 v 1 i r I t 4 a 3 P r y x rM t i t rf y s t i Irrigation has proven a profitable practice for many farmers It basan bas has hasi an i added advantage when irrigating equipment is 13 arranged so that it can also be used for fire protection Emmet Cabaniss of Maxeys Georgia has bas his bis equipment set up so that if a fire breaks out be he can be pumping 1200 gallons of water per minute within ten minutes His acre acre farm fann has five five man made lakes cone one ne near his buildings He uses 1600 feet of six-inch six pipe line His Ills pump and power unit are mounted on a trailer for quick transportation The equipment not only protects him against fire but also against He improved the system last fall by the pump with witha a 4 General Motors Diesel engine Extra power of the Diesel permitted him to switch from an foot SOO-foot line to the foot 1600 line Although the new engine pumps 60 more water than the gasoline engine he used previously previously-it it costs no more to run Mr Sir Cabaniss now has acres that can be irrigated by overhead sprinklers lie He can put an inch of ot water over three acres every hour He lie figures his irrigation system is rapidly paying for itself by prevents prevents' preventing preventing prevent prevent- s' s ing crop loss and increasing milk production of his 70 dairy cows |