Show METHODS M etli gods OF or irrigation american for december has an artl arti article eld old with illus orations trat ions long u poil upon some methods of irrigation lough though Tl naturally a moist country england is in the he advance jiu jin n regard to improved methods of irrigation one ot of thase those methods is by tho the usg use of perforated trofa tead pipes hipes called the stoke paris park system to which we referred a short time urne binchi alfice A system similar to this thia la Is also applied or proposed for the watering of or streets on the st stoke 0 k E I 1 pa park estate of mr I 1 E ji J colman a 4 twelve horse power engine working i a force pump draws water from a reservoir abad abid forges forces it with B ay iy a pressure of seventy severity nive five pounds I 1 per square inch through a se see ser ties of pipes piped perforated with mall mali holesis holes hole sId sin ln the sides side these pipes are fed by subterranean iron s supply pipes to which they are laid down at right angles on the surface of I 1 he earth in parallel lines sixteen yards apart ten tons of water are forced through these pipes pipea in a shower of spray over an screand acre nere and a hair half of land in fifteen minutes then the tapi taps are turned and another acre acra and a hair half is watered in the sarno samy way wail thus irrigating the soil at the rate xit of six acres an au ho hour houn ar this watering vat wat ering is always done dono in the tile nighta which v is better than in the day time with top dressings applied also to the nield field thus irrigated the grass s grows an inch per day and no drawback from drought the figures pertaining pertain hig to this system ot irrigation are thus pre dented gross groag yield per acre aar i c am any ual uni cost rent or a d included sa 0 mancie manure 30 interest appu coltof cost of W machinery and apparatus with allowance for maintenance main maln tena nde and arid repair laj idl 16 J total of or all expenses ans 56 25 per acre annual andua ip profit lafit 75 per pier acre the same sanie system applied in n another part ot of england to italian ry rye egrass grats for mowing produced seventy tons per acre acro or seventeen j reet feet in length of growth the crop being cut cub nine times time another well known farmer grew eighty e lity tons pera pern per acre erg erd and was w assured 9 ho lie could grow tons of green grass eqbal equal to t 0 twenty tons of hay per acre or sufficient t to 0 winter ten cows veil veli well welt another method of irrigate irrig irrigation ati don lon is with ith hose and flexible pipe the water supplied from froin hydrants wo doo feet foet apart and connected with a reser reservoir voli less power or head is required for this tilis by il it one ono man can water ten acres in a night in england the cost of bf apparatus app ratus engine and elevated reservoir por for this system is about per acme acre for ten aeres s with wl th an indrea increased sa rat rate nate e for foe small smaller er plots and a dV creased decreased rate for lar larger ar of pounee where abere there is natural fall enough the coat cost would bo much less this system is li better ild iid adapted apted for fbi plowed la land nd i except that all shower systems aie abt good for baky soils except they are in in grass clover etc the agriculturist recommends underground irrigation ps especially for baky iano inno lands by means of a serl seri series geries of collar rollar tile file pipes laid wd as aa for dinin ige age but only a noot foot below the su the water when jet hito into th the ipei pipea escaping at the joints and thus bus moistening the ground this thil is thought to jq comparatively ta a very inexpensive method for irrigating small smail plots orli of laud land lid ild a two horse power with a rotary pump will raise a stream three in aches e hes in diameter or br nearly gallias of water loo iov feet high per minute the dost cost bt a so to which sie steam m may a be directly applied from tilo tild boiler b 0 ler len wit without lout the intervention of an engine and capable of r raising alsing gallons dallons per por minute is 2 in this country and one capable of raising 1100 aioo gallons gallon per sper minute Is soo any improvement in irrigation s of importance to the farmers of this his territory as if not in its 16 yet in some thereof hereof it maybe may be found avaiu avaiL available ibie ible arid ind useful in cultivating the soil in this uncommonly arid eilt clit climate liate |