IRRIGATION. 73 
Only one station, Lincoln, Neb., reports unfavorably, but admits 
that the trial was not made under the best auspices, as the plant had 
been laid four years, and neglected till the wooden tank had dried 
up and fallen away; part of the pipe was only one-half-inch iron; 
perforated every foot or so with one-fourth-inch holes; as four of 
these holes might exhaust the water in the pipe, it will be seen that 
the method might have its weak points. 
DISCUSSION. 
Pres. Underwood: I would like to ask the gentleman how 
large a pipe would be necessary to irrigate a row 600 feet long 
and how near to the top the pipes should be laid. 
Mr. Nutter: From what I have learned I do not know 
whether any main has been carried so far. It is the practice 
to use two or four inch tile. The water escapes at the joints. 
The tile would carry the water two or three hundred feet with- 
out much trouble. 
Mr. Brown: Then that tile would be preferable to iron pipe? 
Mr Nutter: I think so. 
Mr. Brown: You irrigate under the ground instead of on 
top? 
Mr. Nutter: Yes, sir; the tile is laid sufficiently deep to es- 
cape the cultivator and the plow. 
Mr. Gage: I laid some of the first tile that was ever laid in the 
United States. There was a man who had a farm on which he 
could not raise three bushels of wheat to the acre, so he went to 
Scotland and got a man and went to work and laid these tile, 
and he increased his crop so that the work paid for itself in 
wheat, and before he died he had laid 56 miles of tile on his 
farm, and increased his wheat yield from three bushels to for- 
ty-six bushels per acre. 
Prof. Green: I hada little experience the past summer in 
sub-irrigation. I have a lot at St. Anthony Park, and it both- 
ered me a good deal to water myshrubs. I always used a hose, 
but last spring I laid some hoilow brick; I laid some hollow 
brick right alongside of those shrubs from the house, and it 
was the most satisfactory way of irrigating those shrubs I 
ever experienced. 
WATER FOR SPARTA, WIS., FRUIT FARMS. 
Sparta, Wis., March 27.—The city council last night awarded the 
contract for a system of waterworks. The plant includes power- 
house, engines, mains and reservoirs. The power house will be lo- 
cated near the iron works and the reservoir will be built on the top 
of Hollow Bluff, and when full the water level will be 142 feet above 
