PULSE OF IRRIGATION. 



IRRIGATION IN THE EAST. 

 Through the kindness of C. P. De Field 

 we are able to present to our readers the 

 following description of an irrigation 

 tank, built by him at his place in Field- 

 home, N. Y., together with illustrations 

 of same. 



Ions when full. There is a spring within 

 twenty feet of the tank and an inch bored 

 well just outside of the wall. We have a 

 pump (hot air) using kerosene for fuel, 

 ready to erect, that will pump water from 

 the well into the tank or take water from 

 the tank and pump it into the house some 



"The walls of the tank are of Portland 

 cement concrete, two feet thick at the 

 top and four feet thick at the bottom, 

 most of the bevel being on the in or water 

 side, to allow the ice to lift rather than 

 squeeze out the sides The tank is four 

 and a^half feet deep with right angled cor- 

 ners aud |should hold fifty thousand gal- 



100 feet above the tank or pump it into 

 any of the irrigation ditches of the garden 

 which is over half a mile long (to avoid 

 many turnings of the animal worker.) 



When the tank was first completed it 

 was very dry and the spring extremely re- 

 duced and while the concrete was harden- 

 ing the walls became so warm that the 



