SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



water from the well or supply main and raising it 

 to the storage tank. 



This constitutes a complete and self-contained 

 pumping outfit. It has the same advantage over 

 windmill pumping that steam power possesses, 

 in being always reliably at hand. It requires no 

 skilled labour for its operation; a feature which 

 commends it as especially suitable for small culti- 

 vators. 



As above said, we may be reasonably confident 

 that a pump of any leading style, purchased from 

 a reputable dealer (including, too, its steam cylin- 

 ders and fittings, if a steam pump), will be found 

 pretty nearly what it is represented. But in choice 

 of boilers, and windmills likewise, neither general 

 experience nor opinions gathered from dealers will 

 be found, perhaps, quite so safely reliable. 



Of one point, already dwelt upon, the vege- 

 table-grower may be wholly confident; that, in 

 some way or other, as an indispensable necessity, 

 he must procure water. In making his choice of 

 means for doing it, he will do well to weigh care- 

 fully what we have here suggested, as regards 

 alternatives; but on the main matter, there is no 

 alternative the water must be had, as an indis- 



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