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The pipe for the wells cost 15 cents a foot, and the cost of driving 

 the three wells was S5. A 4-horsepower vertical boiler supplie's steam 

 at 40 pounds to a duplex pump, which delivers 75 fjjallons per minute 

 through 1,200 feet of 2-inch pipe, against a 60-foot vertical lift into 

 a wooden tank holding 12,000 gallons. The fuel used is hard coal, 

 costing S6 per ton, 5 to 8 tons being used in a season. In a twelve- 

 hour run 250 pounds of coal is burned. One man is rec^uired for the 

 operation of the steam plant. A 10-foot windmill, supplied from a 

 2-inch well, is also used to pump water into the tank. It pumps 

 against a total lift of 75 feet. 



The soil is a light sandy loam, 12 inches deep, with a cla}^ subsoil. 

 Sprinkling from water witches is usually employed, although occa- 

 sionally furrow irrigation is used. The water supply will irrigate 1 

 acre in eighteen hours. The water witches are mounted on f -inch pipe 

 3 feet high, which rise vertically every 10 feet from T's on a 1-inch 

 pipe, which is 190 feet long, making twenty water witches on the 

 line of 1-inch pipe. The sprinklers are run for half an hour or more 

 in one place and will irrigate a strip 10 to 14 feet wide. The entire 

 sprinkler pipe line is moved by six men in one minute. Thirty-five 

 hundred feet of 2-inch pipe and 500 feet of inch hose are used in 

 distributing water over the farm. The cost of the entire plant was 

 $1,500. The 2-inch hose cost 11 cents per foot and the tank $95. 



In dry weather most truck is irrigated every week. Lettuce is 

 irrigated every two to three weeks. The owner believes that irrigation 

 is worth SI, 000 in average years. In one year the crop from a single 

 acre of irrigated lettuce sold for $1,000, while unirrigated lettuce 

 failed entirely. Potatoes and onions are seldom irrigated. 



No. 39. Phillip Bach, of Queens County, irrigates 7 acres in truck 

 from five 2-inch driven wells, 20 feet deep, costing $28 apiece. The 

 water stands 10 feet below the surface. A vertical boiler supplies 

 steam to a duplex pump, delivering 80 gallons per minute, against a 

 vertical lift of 67 feet, through 1,200 feet of 2-inch pipe into a wooden 

 reservoir holding 10,000 gallons. A 12-foot windmill furnishes an 

 additional supply. The pump will fdl the tank in two hours. Four 

 hundred pounds of hard coal, costing $5 a ton, is used in a ten-hour 

 run. 



The soil is a sandy loam, 3 feet deep, with a clay subsoil. The pump 

 will irrigate 1 acre in ten hours. The water is distributed over the 

 farm through a 2-inch main with U-inch branches 150 feet apart. 

 These branches are provided with 1-inch outlets 75 feet apart, to 

 which a series of water witches is connected by hose. The water- 

 witch lines, three of which are used at a time, consist of 6 sprinklers, 

 each mounted on f-inch pipe, which rise vertically every 12 feet from 

 a 1-inch pipe. The water witches will irrigate an area 14 feet wide. 

 Three men can move the water-witch line in two minutes. Not over 



