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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



it will operate equally as well between anchored 

 floats, rising and falling with the flood, and the power 

 may be applied to pumps, elevators, or in other man- 

 ner as required. 



" Its power may be transmitted by belts, gearing, 

 link belts or cables. It may be constructed for any 

 desired service, according to the volume of water 

 available, for from one-horse power to hundreds. It 

 is durable, little liable to breakage of its parts, any 

 of which may be cheaply replaced, and runs almost 

 without care or expense. For irrigation Works, it 

 will save the construction of expensive headworks 

 and main canals through canyons, which involves 

 the employment of large capital as first cost and for 

 maintenance, by raising the water directly from the 

 streams at the most accessible points, in quantities 

 according to immediate requirements, using the force 

 of current in the passing stream for its motive power, 

 thereby saving unnecessary investment. 



and unpleasantness. The upper shelves of the oven 

 warm the dishes to exactly the right temperature. 

 Press a button and the coffee will be steaming hot; 

 another button, and the eggs are beaten ; another 

 button, and the meat is chopped. The electric wash- 

 ing machines, irons and sweepers will change house, 

 work from drudgery to a scientific economy of power. 

 There seems to be no reason why the electric ovens 

 should not take the place of the coal stoves. But we 

 draw the line at the food cooked. We eat with too 

 much electric speed already. Lewiston Journal. 



ESPANOLA VALLEY, NEW MEXICO. 



The accompanying illustration shows the canal and 

 other improvements that have been made during 

 the present year by Mr. E. P. Hobart in the southern 

 part of the Espanola valley, at Hobart, Santa Fe 

 county, New Mexico. The canal is taken from the 



, ESPANOLA VALLEY, NEW MEXICO. 



"It will be of very great utility in employing the power 

 of the current in canals and laterals to raise water 

 above the grade levels to land which is often by far 

 the more valuable. They may be placed in success- 

 ion in a line of flume, combining the power of several 

 machines and using the same water as it flows from 

 one to another. For transportation into mountainous 

 country, it may be taken in pieces, and for the 

 largest powers no single piece need weigh so much 

 as two hundred pounds.' 1 



ELECTRICITY IN HOUSEWORK. 



Electricity promises to solve the domestic problem. 

 It is simply press a button and dinner is ready. An 

 electric oven will cook a twelve-pound turkey in two 

 hours and forty minutes, and no thought need be 

 given it, while the kitchen is entirely free from heat 



Rio Grande, which here furnishes an abundant sup- 

 ply of water at all seasons. 



The amount and quality of the melons, vegetables, 

 and other products that have grown under this canal 

 the very first season is really wonderful. This valley 

 is admirably adapted to fruit raising, and heavy ship- 

 ments of peaches have been made this season from 

 orchards but three years old. The demand from the 

 neighboring towns has been much greater than the 

 supply, and there is every assurance that the business 

 will be permanently profitable. 



KANSAS. 



Finney county is making a success of raising alfalfa 

 by irrigation. 



There are 150 reservoir-irrigated farms in the 

 vicinity of Garden City. 



Meade county claims that her farmers sunk wells 

 and used the water to irrigate with years ago. 



