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Show NEW OUTFIT FOR IRRIGATIOIN Water Lifter of Recent Manufacture Is Excellent for Ure on Extremely Ex-tremely High Ground. Farmers who either flooded or ran water down listed out furrows before the crop was planted this la Ht spring are the ones. If they Irrigated at the proper periods afterward, who are reaping the potatoes, bee's and gar den truck. Where no Irrigating was done until after the crop was up the crop was much less, and In some cases, even with proper watering, the crop has In i u failure, simply bo-cause bo-cause of no bottom moisture at the start. A trial Is being made of many kinds of pumps, makeshifts, eleva tors and lifters. Each class has Its place-Its advocates. The centlfu gal pumps are hard to beat on low lifts, but where the water must be raised, say 20 feet or over, they have some capable competitors, writes (J Holies In the Farm, Stoc" and Home. One of these Is a true water lifter, of rather recent manufacture, which lifts' the water to 20 feet or more with less power than many other styles. The lifter In use here Is the OOiVgallon per-minute per-minute type and requires four horse lower for that capacity. The machine consists essentially of Mi eight gallon buckets (galvanized sheet steel I sw ung between two cog chains. These chains turn about two Urge cog wheels suspended loosely In the well (or pit), at the top the chain cog wheels get their power through back geared friction pulleys. There are two shaftings; one carries the chain cog wheel and larger friction fric-tion wheels, the other the belt pulley and smaller friction pulleys. As the ascending buckets begin their backward Journey the water Is dumped Into a centrally placed receptacle, recep-tacle, directly underneath the shaftings. shaft-ings. From this vessel the water flows out around the ascending buckets buck-ets to an outflowing trough. There Is a brake, so that If the machine stops at any time the chains are locked right where they stop running. Friction Fric-tion Is also reduced to a minimum through the use of roller bearings The farmer who bought this llftei paid something like $290 for It, or with the engine the outfit would cost him about $125. One good feature of this machine is that he. Is running It with a two-horsepower engine, though but one third to one half the buckets are In use. The operator is working on the problem of pumping from wella, the wells being supplied from sand points driven In the bottom. At present from a well 9 feet across, 17 feet to water, 7 feet of water, and four points, two 18 feet down and the other two 27 feet down, the now Is 1 close to 80 gallons per minute. These points are two Inches In diameter. |