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prevent the water slopping over. I let these two mills and pumps 

 run night and day, and they would pump 200 to 800 barrels each in 

 twenty-iour liours. They cost me about as follows: 



Two ten-foot mills and towers $100 00 



Cylinders, pipes, and points 25 00 



400 feet of one-inch gas pipe 22 00 



50 feet of one-inch hose 6 00 



$153 00 

 Value of labor spent in applying water in 1894 50 00 



I did not derive the benefit from these irrigation i)lants I would 

 have if I had used them earlier in the season of 1894, but they saved 

 me five acres of plants, which, notwithstanding the destructive frosts 

 of May, 1895, yielded me 4,000 quarts of strawberries and $500 

 worth of plants. The plants wintered through the past dry winter in 

 a very healthy condition, and in digging and counting plants we sel- 

 dom found a dead plant. 



The past year I have thoroughly irrigated seven acres of strawberry 

 plants and about three acres of other plants and trees with the two ten- 

 foot mills and three pumps. The third pump was located about three 

 hundred feet from one of the mills and was attached to it by quad- 

 rants and wire. The mill did not have sufficient power to run both 

 pumps at same time, as the distant pump had a six-inch cylinder. I 

 have remedied this by erecting over this larger pump a twelve-foot 

 heavy mogul mill, which allows a twelve-inch stroke and will run the 

 smaller pump with the quadrants and wires. This smaller pump will 

 have four-inch cylinder, allowing a twelve-inch stroke, and will pump 

 about 1,G00 barrels in twenty-four hours. I am satisfied that this 

 twelve-foot mill will operate the six and four inch pumps at the same 

 time, and with a brisk wind will pump 3,000 to 4,500 barrels in 

 twenty-four hours. 



This twelve-foot mill and tower cost $100 00 



Cylinder point and pipe 35 00 



200 feet of one and one-fourth-inch pipe 20 00 



35 feet of one and one-fourth-inch hose 8 00 



$163 00 

 Estimate of value of labor in irrigating, 1895 100 00 



