IRRIGATION. 63 
Mr. Wolcott: I shipped to Aberdeen, Dakota, and they 
wanted more of them. For blackberries, people came to the 
house and I sold them right off the place as fast as I could pick 
them. I thought at first | would use enough eave troughs made 
of fence boards, raised about ten feet above the ground at the 
well, but J found there was not fall enough, so I got the two 
inch iron pipe which is much better. 
Prof. Hays: What is the size of your well? 
Mr. Wolcott: It is a four inch well. I think the well paid 
for itself last year. 
Mr. Gould: When you speak of berries, do you mean all 
your berries you raised? 
Mr. Wolcott: I mean strawberries, raspberries and black- 
berries. 
Mr. Gould: Do you include all that you made on the place 
in that $500 you mentioned? 
Mr. Wolcott: I sold about $500 worth of berries altogether. 
The frost killed half of them. 
Mr. Elliot: You did not have all your ground occupied with 
vines? 
Mr. Wolcott: No, there was considerable breaking. 
Mr. Gould: Did the frost kill your blackberries? 
Mr. Wolcott: Yes, in June. 
Prof. Hays: What kind of soil have you got? 
Mr. Wolcott: It is all sandy soil. 
Mr. Pearce: What is the quality of the water? 
Mr. Wolcott: Itis hard water. Ido not think there is any 
lime in it. 
Mr. Anderson: When would you rather water, in the night 
or in the daytime? 
Mr. Wolcott: I would rather water in the daytime, if the 
weather is dry or warm; if you have got to irrigate in warm 
weather the ground warms the water before it reaches the 
roots. 
Mr. Pearce: Do you think if the water had been warmed the 
crop would have been larger? 
Mr. Wolcott: Ido not think it would have made any differ- 
ence. I ran my lawn sprinkleron the edge of the strawberry 
patch, and the strawberries were just as good at one place as 
another. 
Mr. Wedge: Doesn’t the nature of the soil make some differ- 
ence? 
