| Show irrigation lERI irel gration CrATION IN ft IN IX the course of ant andie aldir an die der kj dir 1 r john hope jun ai it ni air rear ir n tho mark lane zane 11 lt ere vre re tle tte te lle hexham northumberland Northum bera berl i d farmers 1 laim club the foli following owin I 1 remarkable remar kabe kabo testimony of tile tiie benefits of and systematic irrigation on the tho most economic plan plin possible BO so dar far as the tho amount of water used is is concerned occurs ur sir coleman ilar liar taken ap tiie ilia proposal of mr lale iaac I brown of E edinburgh and placed bome conic forty acri h af lils its lark bark i ark under a new irrigation system lead pipe per mith with mali wall hole are abelli laid d in parallel lines exteen yards and twelve horsepower horse power engine pumps nt at night from the tho lake into theme these jhc thc 4 piper when an artif artificial ocial iclal rain Is thrown occran fjeran nica of an acre and ahall a hilf half ten tea ous ons of water heing being ejected ili ill birute 1 are ahre taken in suc succession cWon until tiie tile elrea evrea urea urca of six acres is during the nigh 0 on land thu treated n crowth or gras half ai au inch to ona one inch day can be obtained and aud with a novel y acin nt f folding g also aiso 0 in need at store stake park the ats als irl large number of CA ogg sheea per er acre may be fed led cd the folding to w which I 1 11 ch we refer Is done by means of or a double row of hurdles made in the form of or a che vaux defrise def iise stretching across across the P pa aa turc ture yards the rows these hurd hurdles leswith with three feet prongs are arc advanced four times ilmis per day and the sheep feeding between the and with ample room far movement have bare at all times limes an abundance of strong atron fresh and excellent herbage foul their food and walk and ind lie only on what they have already cropped it is claimed hat whereas under the ordinary en the forty acres of stoke park pasture would be oer jerdone done with aw under this tilis double system of irrigation und and foidl folding ing the forty aeres acres of the tic park will sri sti sustain stain 2630 ratting f sheep from april to october which putting pulling on ona pound of 61 mutton per carcase per week for twenty eight weeks will riva rive the tery very ere are turn tum of 63 per acre here hero we vre have an instance of the value of isitt intelligent ardd arid careful crazing grazing assisted by systematic irrigation perhaps tilo tile most perfect system of irrigation ever adopted this instance happens inthe buthe iii ili 0 clim climate ate 0 of C E England ngian diw whore ii ore it I 1 t is commonly understood that to too 0 much rather than too little rain falls which so far as the actual fact facts are concerned is the tho case and sometime 9 is not they I 1 ha ia e rainy times and dry limesand time times sAnd and rainy seasons and drouthey seasons there as well a as other people have elsewhere but that coultry couf atry is not uniformly too wet to re lidei irrigation needless and unprofitable whether ar nota not a similar system of irrigation and grazing could be success successfully fully rully practised practiced here we vve shall not dis div discuss cuss today to day ft it is a subject which it mighty might bo be pro profitable fl table tabie for ou our r farmers and fard catti cattle 0 owners to consider at ht their lei lel leisure sine I 1 meantime we may dwell briefly upon the leading points in mr honeys statement 1 forty acres are el by artificial showers showery in the night bic sic acres at a N time ten tons of W aker aler on one and a hair half acres in fifteen minutes minute probably jag yag aa often ofton as considered necessary 2 with this the growth of grass U from half an inch to ah inch da dally daliy I 1 I 1 y 3 sheep 60 66 to tile tilo acre or 2010 2610 to the forty acres are folded on the land in dIvIs divisions Idus seven yard yards s ado gidej the X C hurdles moved dour four times a day and the grazing only between tilo the prongs of the hurdles 4 the sheep sheep make chake a pound of mutton per week 5 the forty acres are overdone with sheep as a ordinarily grazed by running at large in tile the park the irrigating and foldi folding nir system thus sustaining tn til fattening sheep where the thin ordinary grazing system sustains only one 6 the 40 aeris acris thua irrigated and grazed return an income 0 01 60 go 60 or per acre now these ne are very remarkable statements and hen Wen if entirely trustworthy as probably they are they deserve deserto the serious consideration n of every amer american cah Th finer farmer for it appears that by this irrigating and folding system syster one acre of oriand land Jand I 1 can bo be made as productive ng al ten ordinarily in E england n t an id and that proportion would be increased in many instances instance s ill in this country the reasons for aliese ary returns consist in tilo the economy of two things perfect watering and perfect gon don consumption of the he grass for grass lauds lands of f nil all kinds and for any other 1 land and that is not note bak baky watering by fi fine ile tic showers is the very best host method that can call be with it the lali fail land 14 i imi firmly moistened not nob made miry wiry in in bno one place and left dry a as dust in n another u 0 t her hor thebert th the ebest best conditions of the s soil 0 i 1 for tho the growth of vegetation being uniform moderate moisture and genial warmth with this tilts folding system of kra grazing the tiie grass is uniformly grazed none soiled soled or trampled upon but every portion utilized and converted into luto into meat with the sole exception of or the tile animal excretion which falls on oil tile tiie gm grazed zed land not dot on the tiie grass being or to be grazed everybody knows that in oid ordinary inary inart g grazing raz I 1 n with tile tho animals run running at largo large in the tiie fielda nield field they dest destroy roy or ors orf Folit coit soli or spoil far more than tile they pat eata hence the economy of this tins peculiar pe elliar cillar system of folding the hur dies dlo being moved frequently and buta but a very short distance each time ashfor irrigation it is well weli known that water w will III ili bring grass any and good uniform irrig irrigation amiot I 1 will not fall fail to produce good uniform crops of grass |
