| Show TO IRRIGATE BEETS furrow cyst system em Is cheapest because covers quickly where flooded evaporation Is creater greater and leave leaves soil exceedingly hard and likely to crack plant cant be ile cultivated uy P nsf of F knorr the s abject of irrigating baa has been sescial times but from the questions that we e are askel there al anys scoria to be a doubt in the mind of tho grower whether be he or we are ID iii our statements farming as alt all else has several methods or ways in which work may be done each man thinking that his sy system isteni la IS tho the proper one we must all admit that farming Is not an exact science but a variable one that which la is true one car may not be the next a certain plan of working that gives success this year may mean failure the following car ear in chemistry by combining certain chemicals we get certain results today to day lay to morrow next year ear and forever in mathematics the name same Is true we irrigate beets three time this year and get a crop wo we do the same next year and fall it Is good judgment that makes a success of farming and more specially of at irrigated farming we havo have studied very carefully all of the bulletins that have been issued by the various ex peri pediment ment stations trying to determine the minimum amount of water that Is required to produce a maximum crop of beets pr or grain the results obtain ed from this work ark are very interesting from train the theoretical view point from the practical side it Is rather a failure and has been so admit admitted tod it has taught one great lesson however and that la Is a closer study of our boils soils crops etc the soil and climatic conditions are variable with this variation the crop requires more or less water even it if all nil of the soil were alike the atmosphere Is 1 different more wind or sun shine would call evil for more water there are means that are within our province that we can use and follow out for the more economic use of wa ter for water means money the application of at it reduces our net in come in many sections of at the irrigated country we find that flooding is practiced though we have been guilty of the same thing we havo have now changed our viewpoint and have taken to row or furrow irrigation tor for the following reat reasons tons we found that the furrow system Is cheaper one man can get over a larger area of land in the same length of time it lope all of the rows in a direction where the fall Is to not too great and have found that one and find one half to two inches to the feet ghea excellent results on average soil the length of the rows vary with the nature of the soil we have tried rows ruining from feet to one quarter of a mile and find that fool long rows were preferred by the workmen and gave the best results chere the land was hooded flooded the amount of evaporation was much greater than on the furrowed land aa as the water passed away avay the top soil was left exceedingly bard hard and caused it to crack before the subsoil was dry to permit cultivation the surface wis is as dry and hard as a brick it matters not how thoroughly we cultivate the beets after flooding we cannot get close enough to the beets to brcik brek up tip all of the crust and that portion between the beets in the row cannot be pulverized on furrow brog ulon the soil in the rows Is remaining nice and loose thus permit ting the beets to expand to their full cat est capacity on the smaller farms the growers that are following the furrow from the ditch the spouts are made of spouts that are led into the rows from ditch the brotts tire made of a of are sawed in halves and made into these pouts spouts others have made a mould ing out ot of ono one and one half by one inch stuff this was cut out a half round in the center by nail ing two of these to together ether wo we get a sprout with an inch opening if it a man can set rows it would require about of these spouts as they can be tak n up and moved |
