Show irrigation BY A WINDMILL occasionally Reser volra cover half acre but usually smaller ex cellena for garden this Is a good alma 0 year to think about putting in windmills in places where there are none for 60 years now they have been the guide boards of our western progress and a few of the old pioneers are still standing al though weak la the lounts and ready to fall down wherever windmills aro much used it Is customary to build reservoirs close by occasionally they cover halt an acre but usually they are smaller says the denver field and farm for house service and cattle watering they serve as storage to pro vide for periods of calm weather for irrigation uses they are too fidall be of importance as storage but serve as accumulators 0 water perhaps tor several dayland day sand when filled the water can be drawn out and applied tt the fillds in a few hours thus they save the time and secure a good head of water which can be put over the ground as desired it Is not to build large aa the loss by evaporation and seepage Is then of greater moment than the fain in other directions fortunately the time tt greatest wind movement are the spring and early summer months ellch include the best growing season in order to take advantage of the high winds 0 early spring the garden irrigator adopt from the dry farmer the method of water storage in the soil during the season before seed la planted heavy irrigations can be given preferably in deep furrows and after each division of the garden la thus treated the furrows should be covered by cultivation to prevent the escape of the moisture it the soil la loamy and deep and retentive 15 to 20 indies depth of water can be ad stored in this way I 1 the soil Is shallow and by porous gravels such irrigations are a waste of time and of water there are two conditions in which windmills are especially adapted tor irrigation pumping first for the house and garden lot where no other pumping plant Is available and where the depth to groundwater Is not alve very often the windmill la required for house service and since that service does not work the mill to more than a traction of its capacity it can be utilized the remain der of the time watering a garden or an alfalfa patch with no additional in vestment the second condition in which the windmill Is adapted tor irrl gallon service la to provide a supplementary water supply to help out dr farmed crops |