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Mr. Danforth: The cost of the well itself was §^350. but we 

 paid out over '^IjO for pipe and incidentals connected with it. 

 We have about one hundred feet of two- inch hose. 



Mr. Kimball: Did you have it put down by contract or day 

 labor? 



Mr. Danforth: We had a contract. They were to give us an 

 18 foot head of water, but they got down into rock and gave us 

 only a 16 foot head. 



Mr. Bunnell: Do you think two inches is large enough for 

 irrigation? 



Mr. Danforth: Our inside casing is three inches, and then 

 we use two- inch hose. We never use the full flow of water- 

 We could irrigate about one third of an acre a day, and we let 

 the water run without any attention. 



Mr. S. M. Owen: How much do you irrigate? 



Mr. Danforth: We have been irrigating about three and a 

 half acres. 



Mr. Kellogg (Wisconsin): Did you get an immediate ben- 

 efit? 



Mr. Danforth: We commenced on three rows of strawber- 

 ries, but we did not see much benefit. 



Pres. Underwood: Did you have rain? 



Mr. Danforth: Oh, yes, we had showers occasionally. 



Mr. Gardner: Did I understand you to say you did not see 

 any difference in the fruit or the plant? 



Mr. Danforth: We can see a difference in the new bed that 

 is going to bear next year, but on the old bed that bore last 

 year's crop we do not see much difference. 



Mr. Gardner (Iowa): If they have a frost when the plants 

 are in blossom, and the buds are killed, those buds that come 

 on afterwards do not amount to much, and it would not make 

 any difference whether you water or not, you would not have 

 any fruit any way. 



Mr. Collman (Iowa): I would like to tell what I saw at the 

 Elgin Nurseries last summer. The owner irrigated his nur- 

 series by means of underground tiling, and last year while 

 everything else was drying up he saved his entire crop of 

 trees, and he thinks it is by far the best system of irrigation. 



