| Show I ii GET WATER BY A A. WINDMILL i iSmall Small Areas May Be So Irrigated In This I Is ReCOmmended Recommended Way Way Centrifugal Centrifugal Pump mended mende ao as Best I Every farmer could afford to pay from 50 1 to i-a 6 an acre for the Increase Increase In In- crease In yield that Irrigation would give That Is the estimate placed on th the cost of Irrigating small areas by H. H B. B Walker drainage and Irrigation engineer with the Kansas college A centrifugal pump Is the b best st of water wa f adapted where a n. great amount tee ter Is required A three-Inch three pump will require a four tour to eight horse borso power engine to pull It Oil Is the cheapest fuel The coal a steam engine would burn would exceed more more than three times the cost bf oil fuel An ordinary ordinary nary engine burns a pint to two pints of or oil fo tor each horse power every day If Ita n patch to be Irrigated Is less than two a ares aes res a windmill can be used to good advantage It should have havo a n 40 to GO foot tower and the wind wheel should be 12 or 14 feet In diameter The wind cannot always be bo had at tho the timo time the water is to be pumped so a a reservoir must be used It is a good goodplan goodplan goodplan plan to have a a reservoir In any system tern tem em where the well supply is limited Tho soil soaks up too much water a aIt as asIt It runs down the ditches in small streams ms so 80 the water is pumped Into large arge ponds and at the proper time the field or patch is s covered at once In this way t the tho e water gets to th the plants quickly Instead of wasting by seepage and evaporation Sources of water by Irrigation are rivers and natural water sos courses wells wells' and stored storm w water ter Their importance nce Is In the order named Before Before Defore Be De- fore you buy your machinery for Irrigation ire Irrl gation gatlon be sure of your well It must b bs never tailing falling even in the severest droughts The depth of the well should not be more than 80 feet If It it Is deeper than that too much power would b be required to lift the water |
