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Mr. Kimball: I had a hose with a nozzle on, and while one 
pumped the other held the hose. 
Pres. Underwcod: Did you apply it directly on the vines? 
Mr. Kimball: Yes, sir. 
Mr. Brackett: What size is your well? 
Mr. Kimball: I think it is a six inch pipe or, perhaps, eight 
inch, and the well is sixty feet indepth. While I do not think 
it is, perhaps, a very large flow, yet we never had any occasion 
to drain it; we always had plenty of water at hand. We areon 
a bench of land twenty-five feet above the river, and the well, 
of course, is much below the surface of the water, and we have 
as good a supply as we can expect to get. 
Mr. Wedge: Are you not mistaken in the size of your well? 
Our tubular wells are usually three inches in diameter. 
Mr. Kimball: Well, mine is larger. I do not think I am 
mistaken about that. 
Mr. Hitchcock: Have you any idea how much water you 
used? Did you merely sprinkle it, or did you use ahalf inch or 
an inch? 
Mr. Kimball: I could not say as to that. I should say not 
as much as an inch. It might be approximately that. It takes 
considerable water to make a half inch. Strawberry roots are 
near the surface, and the bed was easily revived. They are not 
like the roots of trees where you must thoroughly soak the 
ground to get it to the roots. 
Mr. Hitchcock: I have had considerable experience in irrigat- 
ing strawberries and other things, and your facts and theories 
are both altogether different from mine. My experience tells 
me that it takes at least an inch of water to do any good. 
Mr. Kimball: I cannot say to a certainty how much water 
was used. It was done in my absence by my children, and they 
said it took them about two hours each time to cover about 
eight rods. I think they would have to pump pretty hard to 
pump over half an inch of water to cover eight square rods. 
Mr. Hitchcock: Our practice is to let the water down the 
rows between the plants. 
Mr. Kimball: My children put it right on the beds. It did 
not come fast enough to let it run. 
Pres. Underwood: We approximate the amount of water 
used by the time the children spent in pumping it. (Laugh- 
ter. ) ° 
Mr. Kimball: Iam satisfied from what I have seen in the 
West that it takes verv little water to tide over acropif ap- 
