Show RESERVOIR IS A NECESSITY highly Import erit alere be se some K he s orva ena supply of water lor for ue use in emergencies by B P P Lr new mexico agricultural college it seldom requires more than one seasons e experience with a pumping plant to convince tie operator or owner that a reservoir in connection with the plant la Is an eminently desir able it not necessary adjunct the pumping 2 g plant which will operate day in and day out through the entire season without some serious difficulty has not yet been built and theme difficulties frequently causing a abut down for several days or a week at a time quite invariably occur when the crop la in in most neej 4 ot f water A shut down at ruch a tim time e particularly with garden crops or melons may mar mean the loaa loss ot of the crop and it Is highly important therefore that there be some reserve supply of 0 water against such emergene clea cies there are also other arguments in favor of the reservoir among which ift Is the fact that by means of a re senoir I 1 it t Is possible to make use of a greater heal hea I 1 of water when irrigating than Is to alel led by the plant since the discharge of the pump for nev eral hour hours may bo be retained by the reservoir and then rapidly drawn oft through a good sized ditch to the place of use by so doing it Is pos sible to cover a larger amount of land with ith the same quantity of water than would be possible w with ith a small stream a fact which every ev er practical p irrigator Irrl gator recognizes moreover by use of a reservoir it Is possible 0 lo 10 o irrigate profitably a much larger area with a small pumping plant than would otherwise be possible since the plant may pump water into the reservoir in the night time and during in between irrigations in this way the standby stand by expenses or length of time during the year that tha large plant woul I 1 be I 1 lie and during which time interest eap oj j on the plant and depreciation keep lating the same as though it were in operation A re senoir suitable for the purpose I 1 not be an ex pensive expensive piece of work the chief consideration of course Is water tightness but by use use of straw or manure on the adobe b hot 0 t torn tom and banks and trampling or p u 1 tiling thoroughly valle wet by derivi driving ng sheep or goats about aboul the basin a very compact water tight surface may be sf cured pigs rigs are equally effective it if nl al lowed to wallow in the reservoir when it Is nearly dry an ani I 1 a vigorous and sufficiently long continued tramping by men provided with rubber boots will frequently work wonders in ln cheating in C enting seepage N hert adobe or clay Is not foun I 1 on the site it will pay to bring it from a distance and spread a layer six to eight inches thick over the bottom and st at fee mix it with straw and puddle as above described |