| Show PUMP WATER VATER FOR IRRIGATION Implement Should Be Judged by Total Total Total To To- tal Efficiency and Relation of Water Water Wa Wa- ter Discharged to Fuel Used A pump is not to be Judged by the amount of water it discharges but buty by y the total efficiency and the relation relation rela rela- tion of tho the water discharged to the amount of fuel consumed The runners runners run run- ners of centrifugal pumps can be bent a very little causing the pump pumpo to o discharge a very much increased volume and yet it will not be a paying pay pay- ing ng proposition as compared with a smaller discharge that requires les power It Is very Important to to todeal deal with a responsible firm one able and willing willingto to o make good when a pump falls to perform the work It has been estimated estimated esti estl mated to do so many factors enter Into nto the case that tiit pumps will not give he the the same satisfaction often in cases cases cases' where circumstances seem almost exactly ex cx exactly alike aUke A good firm will If It the thc they lIal ial make z a mistake in tl furnishing a ii typo type of f pipe to the work make good the mistake While on this s subject of efficiency It t may be mentioned that windmills vl will 1 not do the same work where the average velocity of the wind current currents Is s unsuited to them and it Is very important important im im- im to discover what the average velocity Is before establishing an unsuitable type Some railroads are installing wind gaug gauges gauge's gauges s. s and from these an approximation matlon mation can be made |
