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can be irrigated by the use of a steam pump in a 

 day of twelve hours is about three acres. By 

 using a suitable pump we can throw one hundred 

 gallons per minute, which, in a day of twelve 

 hours, would be equivalent to covering three acres 

 more than seven-eighths of an inch deep; equiva- 

 lent in quantity to what we should call an abund- 

 ant fall of rain ; indeed, it is rather more than 

 an average of rainfalls, and certainly we cannot 

 believe there is ever an acre of growing crop which, 

 in a dry time, would not be benefited by such a 

 watering to an amount much more than the cost; 

 though many people shrink from the expense 

 involved, and are skeptical about getting full 

 return for the outlay. 



But certainly where water can be had in ample 

 quantity, and can be applied at such moderate 

 cost as may be inferred from the foregoing state- 

 ments, it must be plain to every one, and, 

 practically, every one does now believe that it 

 will and does pay, in frequent instances earning 

 many times over the amount it costs. It has 

 oftentimes occurred that such watering, once 

 or oftener applied, has saved a crop that, without 

 it, would have been a complete failure. For 



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