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IRRIGATION. 



an inch deep every day. The engine is of 2 horse-power, 

 and requires a boiler of equal capacity. The whole, com- 

 plete, will cost but little over $200, a sum, which con- 

 sidering the inexpensiveness of its operation, is within 

 the profitable employment of almost every market garden- 

 er, or fruit grower, who cultivates 10 to 12 acres. This 

 combined pump and engine is shown at fig. 107. 



A force pump, designed for house and farm use, but 

 which is usefully applicable for irrigation of gardens, is 

 shown at fig. 

 108. This is the 

 "Blunt's Uni- 

 versal Force 

 Pump," made 

 by the Nason 

 Manufacturing 

 Co., of Beek- 

 man St., New 

 York. A care- 

 ful examina- 

 tion of this 

 pump, as to its 

 manner of 

 manufacture, 

 and effective- 

 ness in use for 



the purpose of Fig. 109.- BLTOT'S sun- 

 light irrigation CHAMBER. 

 has been entirely sufficient to show its very great value as 

 a cheap and effective pump. Being simple in structure, 

 any person can take it apart, and put it together if neces- 

 sary ; its strength gives it the durability needed for this 

 work, and being furnished with a very capacious sand- 

 strainer, it may be- used to pump river or other water 

 which may be muddy, or have sand in suspension, with- 

 out the least injury to the interior parts. Not the least 



Fig. 108. BLUNT'S 



FOBCE-FUMP. 



