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minuto will furnish four lioso st reams, each of which will irrio;ate' an 

 acre in a day- 



The soil is a sandy loam 2 feel deep, with a sandy subsoil. The 

 ground is irrigated in dry weather every week to a deptli of 1 inch. 

 City water, costing $1.10 per 1,000 cubic feet, was used to the extent 

 of SI, 000 in 1905 instead of pumped water. It is often impossible 

 to raise crops without water. On the average irrigation will increase 

 the yield one-third. 



No. 47. Weyman Brothers, of Middlesex County, irrigate 40 acres of 

 hnd with water pumped from a dug well 10 feet deep, in which the 

 water stands 5 feet below the level of the ground. The land is located 

 near a lake, and the water level in the well is not lowered appreciably 

 by pumping. A 25-horsepower horizontal boiler furnishes steam to a 

 duplex pump, which is run at 75 strokes per minute. Soft coal, 

 costing $4.50 per ton, is used. The plant consumes one-half ton in 

 ten hours. 



The pump delivers water either into a reservoir or direct into the 

 mains. The reservoir is 40 feet in diameter and 11 feet deep, built of 

 stone with cement-lined walls, and fills in seven hours. The reservoir 

 gives a pressure at the farm of 15 pounds per sc^uare inch. \^lien 

 pumping direct into the mains the pump will supply twelve 1-inch 

 hose streams through a 4-inch main 450 feet long. Movable branches 

 of 2^-inch pipe, provided with outlets 56 feet apart, may be attached 

 every hundred feet. One-inch hose distrilnites water from these 

 outlets, the greatest length of hose employed being 150 feet. 



The present plant is suitable for about 20 acres and is being enlarged. 

 The plant is operated about thirteen hours a day and su]:>plies the 

 reservoir twdce a week. The land is watered every three days in the 

 driest weather. Furrow irrigation is used to a limited extent. The 

 owner values irrigation as an insurance and says it doubles the crop 

 at times and sometimes increases it only a tliird. 



No. 48. James Purcell, of Middlesex County, irrigates 10 acres from 

 the city waterworks. The main consists of 2-inch and 1-1-inch pipe, 

 from which branches of 1-inch and U-inch pipe run out 100 feet apart, 

 provided with outlets every 100 feet for 1-incli hose used in lengths 

 of 50 feet. 



The soil and subsoil are sandy, and erne stream of water will irrigate 

 one-half acre in a day. Truck is wat(>red every week in dry wcMither. 

 The annual cost of water for irrigation is $100. 



No. 49. W. H. Allen, of Middlesex County, has several farms near 

 Arlington irrigated by pumping and from the city mains. One farm 

 of 15 acres is irrigated l)y city watci- at $1.10 per thousand cubic feet, 

 or about $400 annually. The method of irrigation was mainly sprin- 

 kling by hose. WIkm-c the furrow .sv.st em is used the fun-ows are 800 

 feet'long. The .soil is all sandy. One stream of water will irrigate 



