Show REGULATE WATER IN ORCHARD Serviceable Tube May Be Made From Pine Lath to Divert Water Supply In recent years short tubes or sprouts have been used In many of the tho head ditches of orchards to divert dl di vert small quantities of water to fur fur- rows These tubes are usually made of wood but pipes made of clay black Iron galvanized Iron and anal tin Un are occasionally occa occa- used For nurseries and young trees especially and also for mature trees a cheap and serviceable tube tuba may be made from pine lath such asare asare as asare are used for plastering The four-foot four lengths cut into two equal parts and four of these pieces are nailed together together together to to- gether to form a tube One of these tubes when placed with Its center two inches below the surface of the water In the head ditch discharges nearly three three quarter quarters of a miners miner's Inch of water and if placed four inches below the surface will discharge discharge discharge dis dis- dis- dis charge more mor than one miners miner's Inch Inch writes Samuel Fortier In Desert Farm Farm- er In some places the lumber mills manufacture a special lath for this purpose It IG la made half one half inch thick two inches wide and 36 inches long If such tubes when thoroughly dry are aro dipped In hot asphalt they will last a a much longer time In some of the deciduous orchards of f California a still larger wooden tube or box Is used It is made of f f three or four pieces of three fourths by three and three-fourths three inch re redwood wood boards of the desired len length th The flow through this tube is regulated by a cheap gate consisting of a piece of galvanized iron fastened by means of a leather washer and a n. wire nail An can often purchase ata ata at ata a low figure pieces of worn out and discarded discarded dis dis- dis carded piping varying from three three- fourths to to two Inches in diameter Such pipes when cut Into suitable lengths make a good substitute for wooden spouts Tin tubes one-half one inch Irich In diameter and of the tho proper length have been used with good sue suc- cess In compact soils through which water passes very slowly t the e furrows must be near together and under such conditions small tin Un tubes are to be preferred ned In n making use of tubes of various rs kinds to distribute water to furrows it is necessary to maintain a a. consta f head ead in the supply ditch This done is is don Is dono by Inserting checks at regular distances These distances vary with the grade of the ditch but feet is not far from being an average spacing In temporary ditches the canvas dam is perhaps the best check but In permanent permanent permanent per per- manent ditches It pays to use wood or concrete In the latter the opening is controlled by a Dashboard which may maYbe bo adjusted so BO as to hold the water water wa wa- wa ter tel at any desired height and at the same time permit the surplus to to flow over the top to feed the next lower set of furro furrows s. s |