54 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A voice: I have a well that throws fifty barrels of water an 
hour, and I can only irrigate three acres. 
Mr. McGinnis: Is itlevel? 
A voice: Yes. 
Mr. McGinnis: Well, that accounts for it. You cannot irri- 
gate level land. 
Mr. Tobey (Wisconsin): I understand you to say it is not 
practicable to irrigate level land in Minnesota? 
Mr. McGinnis: To irrigate you must get the water in mo- 
tion. It has got to have a fall to get a move on it. 
Mr. Jaques: In my part of the country if you put fifty 
buckets of water on the ground it sinks right out of sight. 
Mr. McGinnis: That is the kind of land to irrigate with 
most success. 
Mr. Gould: I have been very much interested in Mr. Mc_ 
Ginnis’ talk on irrigation. I want to ask him if the twenty 
acres he mentioned as under irrigation are in this state? 
Mr. McGinnis: No, it is in a pure desert. 
Mr. Hitchcock: I want to correct one statement my friend 
made. You want to have your land just as level as possible. 
You must have it level. 
Mr. McGinnis: Yes, in this sense, that the slope must be 
level. The more slope you get the better; it must have a slope 
to it, but an even slope. 
Mr. Gould: What kind of crops do you raise? 
Mr. Hitchcock: Vegetables, cabbage, celery, ete. 
Mr. Gould: How do you irrigate? 
Mr. Hitchcock: Let the water run down the rows. 
Mr. McGinnis: I still hold to my first opinion, that land 
must not be level, because you must have a slope in order that 
the water may run through the furrow. 
Mr. Hitchcock: Ihave a patch of strawberries set out last 
spring,and we could not water them at all—there was too much 
slope. 
Mr. McGinnis: I do not mean by that that the land should 
have a hundred feet of fall, but I have seen land successfully 
irrigated that was very steep. 
Dr. Frisselle: How do you apply water by means of a hose 
on a small patch of land? : 
Mr. McGinnis: In California, where land is very valuable, 
they have their trees in the midst of a depression, and they 
water them by means of a hose. It will not do much good to 
apply the water with a sprinkler. 
