SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 

 It takes one man to run the pump and one to 

 attend to the hose. Only a very little hose will 

 be required, if the land is well piped in the manner 

 following: I would advise beginning the piping 

 with two-and-one-half-inch cement-lined pipe 

 placed under ground with hydrants set but a 

 short distance apart. Run one such line from 

 the tank-supply main fed by the mill or pump, 

 as the case may be, to each of the buildings and 

 hot-beds; and pipe for all the outside culture 

 with three-inch pipe of the same class carried 

 above ground, and furnished with faucets suitable 

 for attaching hose at intervals, so arranged that 

 the distance in any direction from each faucet 

 to the next shall not exceed seventy-five or eighty 

 feet. This surface-pipe must be taken up each 

 year in the fall and replaced every spring. 



Such arrangements may appear rather expen- 

 sive, but it will save much time in the busy season 

 to have the water carried to all parts of the place. 

 On a place of ten acres, the cost of putting in 

 pump, boiler, pipes, and fittings need not be over 

 $1,000. I would rather have a place of ten acres 

 well fitted up for irrigation, than one of twenty 

 without irrigation; and I venture the assertion 



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