232 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



saw au irrigated orchard of seventy acres wliere they pumped the 

 water from a depth of 100 feet and it only cost from §100 to §150 to 

 put it on the soil. Of course they have to exercise economy with 

 water, construct reservoirs, etc. I used to be in the windmill business 

 about twenty years ago, and I didn't have any faith in windmills ir- 

 rigating any amount of land until I visited those fifty pumping plants 

 and saw what they are doing. 



Question — Is the power entirely by wind ? 



Mr. Fort — All by wind. Of course, in lifting water from wells 

 they have to build reservoirs, and some are raising fish, and they cut 

 ice off them in the winter time and use them for a number of different 

 purposes. At one place they had a bath house and a little boat. That 

 is just across the line of our state near Julesburg, Colorado. 



W. F. Jenkins — My well is fifteen feet deep and I have a two- 

 inch cylinder in it. The pipe is four feet in the gravel. I don't know 

 how deep the gravel is below that. I would like to know how large 

 a pipe I could sink there that would fill with water. I have a sixteen- 

 foot mill. 



Mr. Fort — You would find there is a vast difference between a two 

 or three inch cylinder and a six-inch cylinder. While you might 

 have no difficulty in obtaining a sufficient amount of water for a two- 

 inch cylinder, when you come to put in a six-inch cylingler it might 

 make a great difference with that well. I don't advocate this theory 

 of hydraulic wells for windmill purposes; I would rather dig right 

 down and get a supply that you know will be sufficient. If you don't, 

 something will be breaking all the time and giving you trouble. I 

 wouldn't advocate these six or eight inch bored wells, such as thev 

 have over the state, for these large pumps at all. A sixteen-foot mill, 

 one that runs slow, will work a five or six inch cylinder in a 200-foot 

 well with a six to ten inch stroke, depending on the water supply — 

 the freedom with which the water enters. 



A. J. Brown — How large a bore is necessary for a six-inch cylin- 

 der? 



Mr. Fort — That is a question that I cannot answer. 



Mr. Brown — We have at our place two of those wells; they are 

 ten-inch bore and have a stroke of nearly two feet. They are pumped 

 by steam and the supply is inexhaustible. 



Mr. Fort — In a great many localities that might be true, but I 



