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people consists of several thousand acres 

 of grazing and natural hay land. It is 

 watered by a 14-foot Mogul windmill work- 

 ing a 12-inch pump on a 14-inch stroke. 

 The pump throws 6 gallons per stroke. 

 It is not intended at present to water all 

 of this ranch, but merely enough to grow 

 fruit, vegetables and alfalfa. 



A. J. Walrath, a stock raiser, built a 

 small reservoir two years ago. Has grown 

 plenty of vegetables for home use and 

 now has a young orchard and small fruit 

 such as strawberries, raspberries and 

 blackberries. 



G. B. Hoover, two miles west of Big 

 Springs, is an old settler. He located 



(windmill) irrigator of Nebraska and it is 

 conceded that he has the largest windmill 

 irrigation plant in the state to-day. It 

 consists of a 14- foot Mogul mill operating 

 a 12-inch pump with 14-inch stroke and 

 throws 6 j gallons per stroke. Sometimes 

 30 strokes a minute are made. Also a 

 12-foot Mogul mill working a 10-inch 

 pump with a 12 inch stroke throwing 

 four gallons per stroke. Also a 14-foot 

 steel mill working an 8- inch Mogul pump, 

 10- inch stroke, and also a 12-foot Leach 

 mill connected to a 6-inch pump. Mr. 

 Stafford has a reservoir covering two acres 

 five feet deep with water, stocked with 

 black fish. Has a fine four-year-old or- 



TWO-YEAR-OLD PRUNE ORCHARD, K. S. D. RANCH, NEAR ONTARIO, ORE. 



first on the table land, was starved out 

 and then bought forty acres in the valley. 

 About a year ago he put up a 12-foot 

 Mogul mill working a 10-inch pump. 

 Irrigated about ten acres, raised corn, 

 millet, sorghum, onions, potatoes, and 

 vegetables of all kinds. 



Abbott and Kimball and Geo. Thomp- 

 son, of Big Springs, built a small ditch to 

 water 500 acres of hay land. They cut 

 twice as much hay last year as a result of 

 watering. 



W. T. Stafford's farm is located on the 

 south side of the river, six miles from 

 Big Springs. Mr. Stafford is the pioneer 



chard of apple, cherry and plum trees. Has 

 grown strawberries at the rate of 5,000 

 quarts per acre, on a half-acre patch, in 

 bearing the past three years. This year 

 has planted an acre each to strawberries 

 and raspberries. Has grown blackberries, 

 raspberries, gooseberries and currants with 

 great success. Has grown 8,000 cabbages 

 per acre averaging five pounds per head, 

 and 400 bushels onions and 200 bushels po- 

 tatoes per acre. Has also grown large crops 

 of millett and sorghum. At the present 

 time Mr. Stafford has 50 acres irrigated, 

 but thinks he has enough water to cover 

 70 acres when the ground is leveled. He 



