IRRIGATION OF CROPS 



that I could raise more vegetables, or receive 

 more money for my crops, in a period of ten years, 

 from the ten acres irrigated, than from the twenty 

 acres not irrigated. 



Any farm that has been well equipped for 

 irrigation, whether it be one or five, ten or twenty 

 acres, will bring enough more at any time, when 

 offered for sale, to pay for the amount so expended. 

 Therefore, the expense, beyond fuel, labour 

 and repairs, would be only the annual interest 

 on the cost. We will allow $50.00 for interest, 

 or $5.00 per acre on ten acres. The direct cost 

 of running pump for twenty-four hours continu- 

 ously, would consist of the following items: 

 Coal, $3.00; skilled labour, including repairs, 

 $7.00; additional help in moving hose, $2.00; 

 making a total of $12.00, to which add, for wear 

 and tear, $2.00; then we have $14.00 as the cost, 

 exclusive of interest, for each watering of six 

 acres; or $2.33 per acre. 



But the total interest charge remaining un- 

 changed, whatever the number of waterings made 

 in a season, has to be borne in equal shares 

 by all the waterings. The resulting cost for a 

 single watering might be as high as $7.33 per 



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