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of hose from the fire engine, and attached that to a kerosene 
barrel, and took three barrels on the wagon, backed my wagon 
into a pond, filled the barrels and hauled the water to my straw- 
berry bed. One of my boys would drive the team and another 
would dip the water out of the barrels into the one with the 
hose attached, while I would guide the stream from the hose 
on the strawberry bed. The rows are ten rods long, and they 
averaged a little over a barrel. The first tw> weeks we wat- 
ered twice a week, and the third week we watered three times, 
and this we did in the morning, because I had the boys help 
me before it was time to go to school. There was one row we 
put on twice as much water as on any other, and one row we did 
not water at all. On digging into the soil I found the dirt very 
moist, while in the row we did not water it was very dry and 
hard, but I could see no difference between the row that had 
twice as much water and the other rows that had only half as 
much. Inthe row which we did not water at all, we picked 
quite a few berries, but they were not so large as the others. 
After the third week we had a good shower and they needed 
no more watering. 
Mr. Clark: I would like to ask Prof. Hays one question. 
He did not touch upon the use of windmills. Why did he not say 
anything about it? 
Prof. Hays: That has been talked of a good deal, and I tried 
to cut it short, I might say that from what I have been able 
to learn the ordinary farm windmill will water from a few rods 
to a quarter of an acre. A large windmill will water an acre. 
It will run right down around your well without watering a 
square rod Sothe matter of reservoirs or a method of spread- 
ing the water is the great question; and, probably, taking into 
consideration the cost of distributing the water by first putting 
it into wooden reservoirs, it will be greater than by those other 
means recommended. In irrigating a small place, especially if 
the lift is not very high, it may answer the purpose. Iwas 
very glad to hear the experience of this gentleman from Wis- 
consin who used cold water for irrigation. It clears up the 
point as to whether we must use reservoirs or not to warm the 
water. 
Mr. Gould: I will repeat what I said this forenoon on this 
question, that this is a pretty large subject to handle, and it 
cannot be expected that any one man or his theories will settle 
the whole problem, and I doubt whether we with all our 
knowledge and experience can do it; but we can do this and 
