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under which the bushes were ladeu. There was a row of some 

 sixty-five bushes one year planted, and most of them were literally 

 bent to the (ground with heaps of fruit. The average was eif^ht 

 l^erries per inch of wood, and on one bush we estimated there must 

 have been 2,r)0() Ijerries. We have had great loads upon the Smith, the 

 Downing and others, on our own grounds, but we have not seen the 

 quantit}- of fruit upon the bushes of any varietj' to equal that upon 

 these bushes of the Pearl. Should this productiveness prove con- 

 stant, the berry will be of great value for the market. With regard 

 to the mildew, all we can say is what we saw, viz.: it was entirely 

 free from it. One bush stood next a Whitesmith, and, while the 

 berries of that kind were covered with mildew and utterly worthless, 

 no trace of the fungus could be found upon the Pearl. 



Silas Wilson, of Atlantic, Iowa, a well known authority on horti- 

 culture in his state, saj's: 



"The Pearl gooseberry is a great sight. There could be no more 

 berries on the stem without crowding off the leaves. It is wonder- 

 fully productive, and I am pleased to find the quality so good. The 

 best gooseberry I ever saw; nearly sweet. There is no question 

 about its future." 



T. T. Lyon, of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 South Haven, Michigan, in a letter to the originator, says: 



"I have been testing the Pearl gooseberry here for several years; 

 in my forthcoming report (now ready for the press) I grade it for 

 vigor and productiveness ten and for quality nine, upon the scale 

 of one to ten." — Canadian Horticulturist. 



A SUCCESSFUL IRRIGATION PLANT. 



THOMAS H. rOKD. 



I have constructed an irrigation plant that is pronounced first- 

 class. A creek runs through inj' land. From this I dug a trench 

 into the bank thirty feet long on a level with the bottom of the 

 creek, and at the end of the trench placed my pump. The water is 

 lifted seven or eight feet. The pump is operated by means of a 

 nine-horse-power gasoline engine, and has a capacity of loO,(X)(D gal- 

 lons per hour. The cost of running the engine is 10 cents per daj", 

 to which is added $1 or $1.2.1 for the man who looks after the engine 

 and distribution of the water. Eight to ten acres can be watered at 

 a cost of .?2 to $2.25. Last year I applied the water three times, at a 

 total cost of SO cents per acre. My soil is a dark sandy loam, slop- 

 ing to the southeast, and is nearly all in alfalfa. I watered 100 acres 

 with one pump. The pump cost $125 and the engine $(300, a total of 

 $725. This has been used two years without a cent of expense except 

 for oil and gasoline, and I think the plant is as good as the day I 

 started it. I have another irrigating plant of the same kind, except 

 that the water is lifted fourteen feet, and the power is furnished by 

 a fourteen-horse-power traction engine. The cost, however, is 

 almost double, as coal costs $5 a ton, the engineer must have ?:< a 

 day, and only 90,000 to 1(X),000 gallons can be raised per hour. This 

 plant will only irrigate five to six acres daily. — O. J. Farmer. 



