PRACTICAL PUMP IRRIGATION METHODS AND EX- 

 PENSE. 



RODNEY H. YALE, Beatrice, Neb. 



The practice of raising water with pumps, for irrigation purposes 

 is perhaps as ancient as irrigation itself. It is a practical, positive 

 and economical method where the conditions are favorable, and has 

 brought subsistence, and prosperity as well, to countless thousands 

 all along down the ages; and is today the main support and principal 

 source of wealth in many of the most progressive and prosperous 

 communities of the old and new world. And yet we hear some say 

 that pump irrigation "is a failure." When we hear this said we 

 should be charitable and remember that they do not know. 



As we said in the beginning, pump irrigation is an economical, 

 practical and positive method of irrigating if the conditions are favor- 

 able; if the conditions are not favorable we do not claim, nor should it 

 be supposed, that success will be attained. If the conditions are not 

 favorable for ditch irrigation you would not attempt it and if condi- 

 tions are not favorable for pump irrigation you should not attempt it. 



We have heard people talk about irrigating with pumps and rais- 

 ing the water 100 feet or more. If they ever tried to do this they 

 failed of course to get satisfactory results, if field irrigation was at- 

 tempted; and no doubt on the strength of such a failure would say 

 "pump irrigation is not practical." 



Pump irrigation should need no defense, as the practical utility 



