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Show IRRIGATION OF THE GARDENS I i Practice in Eastern Part of Country Will Be Adopted Mainly for Truck and Orchards. A few people have been Irrigating j In the eastern part of the country for ? i number of years. It has paid them ind they continue. A Wisconsin grower grow-er produced $200 worth of strawber ries per acre after the unlrrigated part had quit bearing, due to drouth. A. southern gardener grows late eel-sry eel-sry every year by the aid of irrigation. irriga-tion. He also uses the water for late cabbage, beans and tomatoes, bul :onsiders it essential for his celery Thus by means of this regular wate' nipply this gardener Is able to grow :elery for a good home trade. Statistics surprise us by showing that there Is a considerable total P0, Mod in each year when irrigation ivould be beneficial. It is consklerfd j :hat when a 15-day period pass'9 without as much as one inch of rain-rrigatlon rain-rrigatlon would be beneficial. Dy lb" standard it Is found that some parts )f the south have more than lff0 Tionths of each year when Irrigation R'ould be benelielnl. Irrigation in the eastern part of C19 :ountry will bo uiiopted, of court'-nainly court'-nainly for truck and orchard d"'"'9' Some tests have shown, howe"' that It gives results on Ih'ld In one Instance It Increased the ye ( )f corn three times. In another c t mado luxuriant alfalfa where ci lttions othcrwlso were not very f' t ible. I |
