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IRRIGATION. 



be sayed, and the manure would be applied at the right 

 time, in the right way, and on the right spot. 



" The winter manure should be hauled, as it now is, on 

 the higher parts of the farm no water being admitted 

 to the cellar at this season. When the growing season 

 came on, then the crops of the lower parts would get the 

 benefit of the irrigation. How great a benefit this would 

 be to grass land in time of drouth need only be suggested. 



" The accompanying sketches will show the arrange- 

 ments to be made at Ogden Farm, and will indicate a 



MANURE CELLAR 

 WEST END 



Fig. 36. DRIVE-WAT. 



plan which, with such modifications as circumstances re- 

 quire, may be adopted for the irrigation of any land with 

 sufficient slope. 



"Fig. 35 shows a corner of the manure-cellar with an 

 escape pipe (valved) leading from the very bottom al- 

 lowing the cellar to be drained dry at pleasure. In,front 

 of the entrance to this pipe a screen of iron rods or wooden 

 slats, reaching vertically from floor to celling, prevents 

 solid matters and litter from choking the pipe. If this 

 becomes clogged, it can be cleared with a rake through 

 a trap-door in the floor above. This pipe should be used 

 only when the water will not flow at the outlets above. 



" Fig. 36 shows the arrangement at the west end of the 



