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feetdeep. I dammed it up at the lower side. put down a dam sixty 

 feet wide at the bottom: then I put an inch pipe under the bot 

 tom of the dam. and three feet below the lowest point of the 

 basin, then I put a feeder in to furnish the stock with water. 

 The water is alwaj's clear. We have not pumped a pail of wa- 

 ter for our stock tliis summer. We had a little pond there be- 

 fore we made it larger, and my little boy went to the river and 

 caught some of those little catfish and put in three or four. 

 When we dug it out to make it deeper, we caught fish only two 

 years old that measured eight or nine inches in length, and I 

 think we caught something like a hundred. I am going to use 

 this water for irrigation purposes. I can cover about three 

 acres and I expect to irrigate. I expect to put that area out in 

 small fruits and I want to carry the water by windmill and run 

 it down between the rows. I think I can make it very profit- 

 able. 



Mr. Kimball: How large a watershed have you to fill your 

 pond? 



Mr. Collman, (Iowa): About twenty acres. I have a large 

 waste pipe to carry it off. 



Mr. Brackett: Do you not lose considerable water by evap- 

 oration and seepage? 



Mr. Collman. (Iowa): There was at first, but there is not a 

 particle now. It will evaporate some, of course, but we always 

 have plenty of water. 



Pres. Underwood: While the discussion of this subject is of 

 very great interest to all of us. we cannot neglect the business 

 that must be transacted. 



Sanvitalia is a very pretty annual of low, creepinpf habit and 

 blooms continually throughout the summer and autumn. The 

 flowers are double and of a bright, golden yellow color. 



Many people are not aware that Dahlias from seed sown in the 

 spring will bloom finely the first summer and give quite as good if 

 not better satisfaction than bulbs. The seeds germinate in a few 

 days and grow rapidly. 



Lobelia Pumila Grandiflora is an exceedingly attractive variety of 

 this old and popular tlower. It blooms profusely, bearing flowers 

 of pale azure blue, very large and double. White Gem is another 

 annual of this class, with pure white single flowers. The plants 

 only grow to a height of four or five inches and are denselj- covered 

 with lovely white blossoms. 



