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No. S. John F. Weaver, of Xorthampton County, irrigates 3.5 acres 

 with water raised hy a No. 6 ram. During extreme dry weather the 

 supply is sufficient for 1.5 acres, and occasionally for 2 acres addi- 

 tional. Water is supplied to the ram under a 20-foot head and is 

 elevated 185 feet to a tank of boiler iron 4^ by 8 by 7 feet. The ram 

 is fed through 160 feet of 2 1 -inch pipe and discharges through 2,000 

 feet of 1^-inch pipe into the tank. The standpipe is 550 feet from 

 the ram, wliich fills the tank in six hours, corresponding to a flow of 

 2 gallons per minute. The 1 |-inch pipe is buried in wooden chips and 

 sawdust to prevent freezing. The water is distributed by hand 

 sprinkling and by a four-arm revolving sprinkler, which is moved every 

 half hour or hour. The tank full and the supply of the ram will 

 irrigate on§-quarter acre in twelve hours by the latter method. 

 Tomatoes, cabbage, and beans are irrigated occasionally; celery, 

 lettuce, and radishes are irrigated about every seven da3^s in dry 

 weather. Lettuce and Lima beans receive 4 irrigations, radishes 3, 

 cabbage 1, and celery 12 in a dry season. It takes six weeks to raise 

 lettuce and five weeks to raise radishes when the ground is irrigated 

 just before planting. 



Irrigation doubles the tomato and cabbage jaelds in average sea- 

 sons, and in 1905 without irrigation there would have been no crop 

 of lettuce, Lima beans, or celery. One-third acre of lettuce jdelded 

 in two crops 12,000 heads, which sold for from 2 to 8 cents apiece, 

 the average price being 4 cents. An acre of radishes brought $750 

 in three crops in 1905, the price being 5 cents per bunch retail and 3 

 cents wholesale in a dry year. The wholesale price in average 3^ears 

 is If cents per bunch. Early cabbage is planted 16 inches apart in 

 2*-foot rows. In 1904, 5,000 plants pelded 200 barrels. In 1905, 

 owing to insufficient water supply, the yield was only 150 barrels. 

 Tomatoes yielded 1,200 baskets per acre, the price in average years 

 being 20 cents per basket. In 1905 the price was $1.25 per basket. 

 Beans are irrigated from April through September. In 1905 the 

 celery raised by irrigation was the finest ever grown on the place in 

 size and weight. A bunch of twelve plants weighed 16 pounds, 

 wliich at the price obtained, $5 per 100 pounds, made the yield per 

 acre worth $1,000. The owner believes that besides hastening it 

 irrigation doubles the crop. 



The total cost of the plant, including ram, pipe, and 1,500 feet of 

 additional IJ-inch pipe used for the distribution of the water and the 

 |-inch and 1-inch hose used, was $850. The cost of labor is 75 cents 

 per day and board, and the irrigation of an acre requires six days. 



No. 9. Ed C. Schafer, Northampton County, irrigates 4 acres with 

 water pumped by a No. 8 hydraulic ram fed through 75 feet of 3^-inch 

 pipe. The water supply for the ram is under 11-foot head and the 

 discharge is elevated 80 feet through 575 feet of 1 ^inch pipe into a 



