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acre, if it were the only one made that season; 

 but if two applications are made, the cost drops 

 to $4.83 per acre. In the case of three, the 

 resulting cost for each one will amount only to 

 $4.00 per acre; and, where there are four, only 

 $3.58. 



In the foregoing calculation we have reckoned 

 on the pump as discharging one hundred gallons 

 a minute. The seventy-gallon pump would, sub- 

 stantially, do the watering of only four acres, 

 instead of six, within the time computed for, 

 with but an imperceptible amount of saving on 

 the total cost of the day's operations. 



The practice of irrigating by the aid of pipes 

 and hydrants has only lately been introduced here, 

 and owing to the great outlay involved, the method 

 is used by comparatively few. But too much 

 cannot be said in favour of irrigation ; and the use 

 of windmills and steam pumps has become well- 

 nigh universal.* 



In one instance, which was reported to the Mass- 

 achusetts Horticultural Society, in a severe drought, 

 a steam pump was rigged, and the water of Mystic 

 River was poured for seven days and nights upon 



"Consult Chapter Seven. 



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