Show fooling with ames 0 swore register once in awhile a country editor gets to with fugures and when he does lie not infrequently dis plays a jack of catly educational rd vati that Is truly la mental le alere is an item going the rounds that is a case in point it is upon pilm irrigation and is from tile iveiros for the benefit of abose who A re located not to streams tt reams fo r irritating ting we give below the e pense for irrigating by pump run by abeam A force p U mp to r also the water thirty or fort feet is ill cost zoo an d will th row hundred gallons e r minute it will require a four E orae power engine to work it which uld cost t 1150 the expense of run ning the on gy e and pump would be about ta per A pump of tills kind running hours per day would irrigate six bbous and acres of land or over loncoa wee putting an inch of water on ahn lau kd each time this is rather liberal watering the expense for keeping this u for the season bay six months won d be follows force pump four horse power engine 43 cost of running days 60 total 1250 this will ghe gh e a cost for the water of not quite 21 cents per store in adal tion to this donld be file expense of construe C ting ditches to carry the water after reading tile foregoing clipping it will be interesting to figuro a little one gallon of water weighs eight addono third pounds gallons will pounds to lift this weight thirty feet per minato will be equivalent to lifting pounds one foot per minute he mechanical value of one power brunds runds one footner minute and a 01 our horse pow cren not for or for n ema chinery would only lift pounds per mi nute so that we see that a four hors 0 power engine cannot do the work it would require a r engine at the very lowest to 0 b work and a ore powerful engine still would do better but there Is another point A force pump that will pump gallons per minute would be cheap fit oooo a lid when r deal god for work would s td one it good moro than that then too when the irrigator at 1 I 1 1 run water over acres of 1 deep he will find that it cant be done irrigation from pumps 13 ill well enough and can be done to fine ad vantage but then one does not want to get the orland news man to do his figuring for him before he starts in all |