Show TIMOTHY ON IRRIGATED LANH flooding from field ditches Is ie most popular method soil boll should determine distances probably moro more irrigate df iland on which timothy Is grown la is irrigated by hooding flooding from field ditches than in any other way when this system Is IB used need ditches are plowed from the tha lateral ditch to different parts ot of the tha hold field and ure distributed in such ouch a way as to carry the water along the slopes or ridges from which it can be diverted to flow over the surface of the soil these ditches are ard made with a plow preferably one havinga double moldboard the distance apart that the ditches should be and their location are determined chiefly by the character odthe soil eoll the slope of the land and the tha volume of water available tor for irrigating Aco according to prof samuel the average distance apart that thu the lateral ditches are placed la in about 80 feet the distance may vary however from 30 to 40 feet to feet or more chien the water la Is to be turned on th 9 land it Is diverted from the main dech into the field ditches dams are placed at the proper places in these ditches so as to cause the water to flow dom over the surface of the land ad the ditch when the soil tolbo to bo irrigated frore from this point has become sufficiently ay iy moist the dam Is removed and another is placed farther down the ditch from which more land Is watered this method of procedure duro Is followed oll owed until the whole field has been irrigated |