Show irrigation by pumping from farmers review where the lift of water la leas less than tea ten feet and water near at hand band irrigation will p ty on ordinary crops where the lift la is greater creater it will only pay on costly and profitable pron table crops like email small fruits and vegetables where high quality la Is a factor in the markets my aly experience has been with strawberries only and nd largely tor for nursery where it was desired to grow plants under the most favorable condition in order to fully develop their fruit producing or and therefore imperative that they should not be injured by pro droutha A twenty five flye horse power gasoline engine and no 6 centrifugal pump lifts about gallons of water thirty five f tat pt high and force forces it through twelve hundred feet of at a six inch iron pipe and thence through au an eleven inch duck hose to any part of the farm up to a halt roia mile where it Is distributed with a hose having an arm tube tour four feet long and tour four inches in diameter every four feet letting the water out into narrow about SO 80 gallons are applied to an acre at one watering only one man mail being required to superintend the als of course the amount used varies according to conditions the main point Is to get the water into the subsoil and then let it late out under the plants and arid rise to the surface by capillarity so that the plants never suffer from saturation ul ut grow naturally lae application of small amounts to the surface la to very bal bat under any circumstances it packs the surface so as to exclude air from the roots atil capillarity Is so active that the water would ate before the immediate surface would be dry enough to cultivate and in an incredible short time the plants would be seen to wilt we are very careful never to flood the surface but cultivate the ditch full as soon as possible and stir the surface every week afterwards and so even in the hottest weather the wat ering will ill keep the plants growing in prime condition for fifteen days but we keep the pumps running and man age to make the bound of our 68 acrea of strawberries in less time than andl caged the engine is run to its full est capt capacity elty and consumes about for ty gallons of gasoline lo 10 ten hours costing at present 12 cents per gallon or 1 iia for ten hours it requires the time of the boe hoe squad of at about 30 men who lay down their tools walk malk di directly reAly to the hose and pick up the whole hole and carry it to new ground where couplings are quickly made and water again turned on it also requires one man and horse to make the ditches and another to cut cul sivate I 1 estimate the total cost at 12 1 1 per day of ten hours if a wind mill were used a storage tank would be necessary and the water should be applied at night so it would soak deeply and the ur tae be cultivated the day the water should be carried to the distributing point in hose because the seepage in ordinary soil boil would be large the hose should be liberally large and made of no 4 cotton duck edges hemmed and stitched together on a harness sewing machine the connect a being made by inserting a tube like a stove pipe and trapping strapping the hore to each end for ordinary crops the same amount of expense and labor expanded in till age to conserve spring aralas will ma ture full crops and except where the lift Is small and water in abundance good results in strawberry growing can be had by fall fill mulching and hold ing lag the water down by leaving it until after berries are picked n spring few people realize how much water ater Is required ired to properly p fill the roll voll 0 or an acre of land and if it the area to be irrigated is large an ordinary well would hardly meet requirements requirement 11 M kellogg do orchard soils deteriorate this was the question discussed recently in a farmers in cook county illinois in that county there are many orchards that did well once but have been of no account ur a generation or eo to in some cases the planted new now trees as the old ones ceased to be profitable but the new ones proved of at no consequence some of these men claimed to have given their orchards as good care as they did twenty years ago yet without commensurate returns for the labor expended on them professor blair of the university of 1111 net in attempting to answer this question did not fcc accept pt the statement that orchard solle soils will thus deter orate he ile believes that the orchard orchards has have e not been the care they iced to receive while insect and fun goue gous peste pests have multiplied he lie sees no reason why soil properly handled and trees properly prayed sprayed and other wise properly treated should not do as well now no lo 10 northwestern illinois as they did twenty years agro go when pih are treated with the same consideration and care that are bestowed upon the horse and cow we and find that be he Is in fact a cleanly animal anil and one that will neier oil soll either hit eating or his sleeping place with his hi own refine refuse the number of ra carried ay hj buat un on the preat great taken likes Is from a treto a third of a million each season |