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Then information was songUt for about the cost of pipes, hose, 

 ■etc., from a reliable pump and water fixture firm of Lawrence. They 

 figured quite a large bill for pipe to be laid three feet below the sur- 

 face of the soil; then the water company wanted me to pay them $100 

 for water during the berry season. I hesitated at the expense a day 

 or two; then I suggested the laying of the pipes on top of the ground, 

 as 1 had no use for the water during the fall or winter season. In the 

 meantime, the water company agreed to let me have water at the rate 

 of 15 cents per thousand gallons. So, getting prices down to suit me, 

 I laid the pipes on top of the ground, along the roadways through a 

 two-acre berry patch. 



I used 700 feet of pipe, 400 of which was one-inch and 300 feet 

 three-quarter-inch, galvanized iron pipe. 



At intervals of 100 feet I placed water cocks or faucets for at- 

 taching a three-quarter-inch hose. I had two short arms of three- 

 quarter-inch pipe leading off" from the main pipe, each 100 feet, at the 

 end of which are faucets, so that with 100 feet of hose I could apply 

 the water to the entire berry patch. 



Beginning at the first faucet, I watered all within reach of it, then 

 moved the hose to the second faucet, and so on, until the whole patch 

 was irrigated. 



At the beginning of the experiment I used a nozzle in the same 

 manner that we water our lawns, but soon discovered that it toot too 

 long to apply a sufficiency of water, so I dispensed with the nozzle and 

 let the water run out on the rows of berries from the end of the hose. 



The water was then applied at the rate of about a gallon to every 

 20 inches, lengthwise the rows. This amount of water thoroughly 

 soaked the rows, but not the entire space between the rows. 



Tt would have taken double the amount of water for the spaces, 

 with no addition of berries. The irrigating was all done at night-time, 

 beginning at 6 o'clock in the evening and quitting at 6 in the morning. 

 The time taken to go over the patch was about 24 hours, and the cost 

 to apply the water was 10 cents an hour. I used about 17,000 gallons 

 of water the first application and 16,000 gallons the second application. 



There was an interval of one week between the two applications 

 of water. 



The piping and hose cost $60 00 



Water 5 00 



Application to the plants 4 80 



Total ' $69 80 



I had the water plant ready to begin work May 17. At this time 

 Ihe berry patch had been picked over three times, and in my estimate 



