Show I f ELECTRIC POWER FOR FARMS FARM Much of Future 1 Will Bo Be Work of Irrigation Done by Pumping Pumping-Elea Most Suitable In many sections of the western states a demand has up for recently sprung power on the farms which is so large and the nature of which Is so attractive from a load standpoint that It promises tp to justify for its Uon tion a very large expenditure on the part of service ice companies I 1 refer to the use of electric Power for tion purposes writes Herman Russell in FIeld and Farm All over the west water win is being B PUmped electrically from wells rivers lakes and ditches ditche for irrigation ion use Large government and private company undertakings are now supplying ing water In this way for thousands of acres Individual farmers farm farm- ers era wherever electric be power can obtained are I installing pumping outfits outfits out out- fits and Irrigating their own land thereby saving the cost of water rights and maintenance charges while obtaining water at a very reasonable cost when they want it and where they want it it it-a a condition not always reached with gravity systems It is clear to any anyone one who has studied studied studied stud stud- the irrigation development in the west that much of the future irrigation irrigation tion work will be done by the aid of pumping Dumping and that electricity is the most suitable power for this purpose Suitable gravity systems have been quickly seized and developed to their practical limits and the combination of natural conditions that go to insure the successful gravity system such as asa asa asa a sufficient supply of water at suitable elevation and within easy reaching distance of good farming lands is at best very limited Most of these have been or are already being developed The electric development for irrigation Irrigation gation pumping is proceeding in two ways Either a large pumping plant suitably located is installed and all the water for a given acreage is pumped at this point to a higher level and then distributed by gravity the gravity the power power power pow pow- er used being electric with either steam or hydraulic generation or electric power Is furnished from a central central cen cen- plant to the Individual farmers who supply their own water taken from streams wells gravity ditches or lakes as the case may be In either case electric power does the work the difference bing simply one of tion A few years will see installations installations installations of various kinds |