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from strawberries at least SI 00 per acre. The plant cost S270, of which 

 the en<,niie cost $200, the i)uiup StiO, and the truck $10. The hose is a 

 second-hand fire hose and cost tlie owner nothinjj;. 

 The cost of well borini; in this vicinity is as follows: 



Per foot. 



1 J-inch well $0. .'iO 



2-inch well 75 



3-inch well 1. 50-1. 75 



No. 30. John I. Sickles, of Monmouth County, irrigates 6 acres in 

 truck and strawberries with water pumped from a brook by an 8-foot 

 windmill mounted on a oO-foot tower. Water is pumped through 14 

 feet of U-inch pipe and elevated 30 feet to a tank holding 6,000 gallons. 

 A li-inch main with branches of f-inch pipe 200 feet long and 75 feet 

 apart, provided with taps for f-inch hose, distributes water over the 

 land. The cost of the entire system was $1 ,600. 



The soil is a light sandy loam. The land is irrigated by sprinkling. 

 The water witches used will cover a circle 20 feet in diameter and are 

 allowed to run for twenty-five minutes in the same place. Straw- 

 berries are irrigated at night by the furrow system and in dry weather 

 are watered every night. Truck is irrigated in dry weather every one 

 or two days, the irrigation season lasting from March to October. 



By the aid of irrigation three crops can be grown on the land. In 

 1905 three crops were grown on unirrigated land, but average years 

 yield about a crop and a half. Irrigation increases the yield of straw- 

 berries and peas 50 per cent and matures radishes ten days earlier. 

 Beets were two weeks earlier when irrigated. The results with cab- 

 bage were not good, probably owing to the ground being insufficiently 

 tilled. In ver}^ dry weather radishes were raised by irrigation in 

 twenty-one days from the time of planting. 



No. 31. Juhus Roehrs, of Bergen County, has an extensive system 

 of hothouses irrigated with water from the city mains at a cost of $1.40 

 per thousand cubic feet. 



No. 32! WiUiam Young, of Essex County, irrigates 12 acres of truck 

 with water pumped from an 8-inch well 406 feet deep, wliich cost $2.50 

 a foot. The water stands 24 feet below the ground and is lowered 2 

 feet when the pump is in use. A vertical 15-horsepow-er boiler sup- 

 plies steam under 65 pounds pressure to a direct-acting steam pump, 

 with 2 J-inch suction and 2-inch discharge, dehvering 65 gallons per 

 minute. The vertical Hft is 30 feet. The fuel is soft coal, costing $4 .25 

 per ton, about 30 tons being used in one year. The plant is usually 

 operated for twelve to fifteen hours a day. Five thousand feet of 

 2-inch pipe are used in distributing the water over the farm. Several 

 lengths are coupled together with unions 40 feet apart. Every 20 

 feet is a T, from which a half -inch pipe 6 feet long rises vertically, on 

 top of which is a water witch. The line of sprinklers is connected by 



