Show RESERVOIR IS A NECESSITY l lI I Highly Important There Be Some Re Reserve Re- Re serve cerve Supply of Water for Use Ube UseIn In Emergencies By E E. E P P. New Mexico Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural College It seldom requires more than one ona seasons season's experience with a pumping plant to convince the operator or owner that a reservoir In connection with the plant Is an eminently desirable desirable desir desir- able ablo If not necessary adjunct Tho The pumping plant which will wUl operate day day- In and day out through the season without some serious difficulty arising has not yet been built and these difficulties frequently causing a shut down for tor several days clays or a week at a a. time quite Invariably ably occur when the crop Is In most nee need of or water A shut down own at such a time particularly with garden crops or melons may mean the loss of at the tho I crop and It Is highly Important therefore therefore there there- fore that there be some reserve supply supply supply sup sup- ply of water against such cies There are also other arguments In lit favor of the reservoir among which is the fact that by means of a reservoir It Is possible to make use of a greater head of water when Irrigating than Is yielded by the tho pumping plant since the discharge of the pump for several several several sev sev- eral hours may be retained by the reservoir and then rapidly drawn off oft through a good sized good sized ditch to the place d lase By BO so doing It is possible possible possible pos pos- sible to cover a a larger amount of or orland land with Ith the same quantity of f water than would be possible le with a small stream a fact which every practical Irrigator recognizes Moreover by byuse byuse byuse use of a reservoir it Is possible to irrIgate irrigate irrigate ir ir- ir- ir profitably a much larger area with a small pumping plant than would otherwise be possible since the plant may pump water Into the reser- reser reser r voir in the night time and during duing in intervals intervals intervals in in- between irrigations ons reducing In this tuis way the stand-by stand expenses or length of or time during the year that the large plant would be idle and during luring dur lur- ur- ur ing which time interest charges on the plant and depreciation keep accumulating accumulating lating the same as though It were In operation I A reservoir suitable for the purpose purpose pur pur- i pose should not be an expensive piece i of work The chief consideration ot of course Is water tightness but by use of straw or manure on the adobe bottom bottom bottom bot bot- tom and banks and trampling or or pud pud- lUng thoroughly while wet by driving sheep or goats about the basin basl a very compact watertight water surface may be Ibe secured Pigs are equally effective if it allowed allowed allowed al al- lowed to wallow in the reservoir when It is nearly dry and a vigorous and sufficiently long continued tramping tramping tramping tramp tramp- ing by men provided with rubber boots will wUl frequently work wonders In preventing seepage Where adobe or clay Is not found on the site it will pay to bring it it- from tram a distance and spread a lay layer r six to eight Inches Inches' thick over the bottom and sides Mix It with straw and puddle as above described |