2 2 Market Gardening. 



course there are many cases where land is not located 

 so as to be easily irrigated. Whatever the location is, 

 no matter if quite favorable, it will require careful 

 management in laying out the rows and planting the 

 crops, to secure a plan which will allow of irrigating to 

 the best advantage. The rows should always run 

 up and down the slope of ground, and more or less 

 obliquely if the ground is at all steep (instead of 

 crossway), so as to allow of watering in the furrow ; 

 which is the proper way, as the moisture is required to 

 be applied to the roots and not the foliage. 



There are very few market gardeners at the present 

 time who have adequate facilities for supplying them- 

 selves with water for irrigation, and it can only be 

 secured, ordinarily, at a great expense. 



Although many places are located near towns or 

 cities which have a public water supply, they cannot be 

 allowed to draw from the supply in such large quanti- 

 ties as are required for purposes of irrigation ; as the 

 need would come at a time when the water was the 

 lowest in the reservoir, and was most in demand for 

 other purposes. It is therefore necessary that the 

 land to be irrigated should either be located near a 

 pond, lake, or stream, or else supplied by an under 

 current of water that may be reached by a driven well. 



After a sufficient supply of water is found, the 

 method of raising it to a proper height for distribution 

 is by the use either of steam-pumps or windmills, or 

 both. A tank or reservoir of the largest attainable 

 capacity must also be provided, for the purpose of 

 storing the water so raised until it can be properly dis- 



