MANURE CARTS. 



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fig. 32. The supply is regulated by means of a ball-valve 

 attached to a wire, which is pulled by the driver when 

 the valve is to be opened, this is shown at fig. 33. 



For the irrigation of smaller gardens a hand-barrow, 

 with a distributor as shown at 

 fig. 34, or with a small force- 

 pump and sprinkler attached, 

 would be useful. It would 

 serve in cases where no more 

 than an acre can be appropri 

 ated for garden and for fodder 

 crops to support a single cow 

 or horse, as in thousands of in 

 stances which occur in village dwellings or the suburbs of 

 cities and towns. By cultivating small tracts of an acre or 

 less upon this system, the domestic supply of vegetables 



Fig. 33. VALVE FOR DISTRIB 

 UTING TANK. 





Fig. 34. HAND-BAKROW. 



may be easily raised, together with ample support for one 

 cow. It is the vast number of such cases as this to which a 

 system of irrigation may be applied, that an aggregate of 

 benefit may be derived that will almost balance in indi 

 vidual comfort and advantage the more conspicuous but 

 less numerous systems of field and farm irrigation. There 



