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supply of water is from a well. We have visited this pond a 

 number of times, and have given it more than usual attention. 

 It is such a complete success, considering the purpose for 

 which it was constructed, that we desire to give special account 

 of it, believing that the information may be of value to many 

 persons who may be in position to build small ponds for irri- 

 gating, fish and other purposes. This pond covers an area of 

 less than one-fourth of an acre, and is circular in shape. It 

 was built by Mr. Bailey at an expense, allowing fair wages 

 for labor, not to exceed a cost of $25, or from five to seven 

 days' work for a man with a good team, plow and scraper. 

 Of course, this does not include the cost of a good pump and 

 windmill, which were installed at a cost of $95, making a total 

 of $120. The windmill that supplies the water for this pond 

 works a pump with an eight-inch stroke in a tubular well with 

 a three-inch casing and a two-inch point. The water is lifted 

 thirty-five feet, from a well that is seventy feet deep. The 

 water in the well usually stands within about thirty- two feet 

 of the surface. For five years Mr. Bailey has irrigated a 

 three- or four-acre garden patch from this pond. The water 

 supply seems to be ample, for during a considerable portion 

 of the time, even during a hot, dry summer like the plast one 

 (1910), the pond was full of water, and the mill was running 

 only a part of the time. Unfortunately, Mr. Bailey has not 

 kept an exact account of the amount of garden stuff raised and 

 sold, and its value. This spring, from March 28 to May 18, he 

 sold over $100 worth of rhubarb from a patch of five rows, 

 each 230 feet in length, and only a part of the crop was mar- 

 keted. Better and finer rhubarb we have never seen any- 

 where. The hills were from twelve to twenty inches in diame- 

 ter, and contained when examined from fifteen to forty good 

 stalks each. Mr. Bailey gave us a half dozen stalks pulled 

 from one of the first hills we came to. One of the stalks, 

 stripped of its elephant-ear leaf, weighed fourteen ounces. 

 There were other stalks in the patch that would undoubtedly 

 have weighed a pound or more. 



A bed of asparagus, three times as large as the rhubarb 

 patch, furnished an abundance of one of the best early vege- 

 tables that can be grown in any country, both for private table 

 use and for the market. 



In this garden we saw sweet potatoes growing at their best. 

 Mr. Bailey dug a hill for us September 2 that contained fifteen 

 potatoes; another hill dug a week later contained twenty-one 

 potatoes that weighed eleven pounds; and one hill, dug about 

 the middle of October, contained thirty potatoes — a third of a 

 bushel — that weighed eighteen pounds. 



Grapevines, berry patches, and fruit trees that had been 

 planted around the edge of the garden in order that they too 

 might be irrigated when water could be spared, were all 

 doing well. 



