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are inserted about 3 or 4 feet apart along your line, which 

 will run about 200 to 400 feet in galvanized iron pipe. These 

 nozzles have a small round opening. At one end of the line 

 we have a loose stuffing joint on the pipe, so that this long 

 line of pipe 200 or 400 feet long can be drawn around and 

 turned over, and the stuffing box makes the joint tight. We 

 turn the pipe and we throw it oE in that direction from the 

 pipe, about 35 feet, and it waters that side. We turn it over 

 and it will water ?)S feet on the other side, and we lip it over 

 in that way, so under 60 pounds pressure the Skinner system 

 will throw 35 feet on either side, therefore covering 70 feet in 

 width. It has the advantage of putting it on like a mist, it 

 throws it out in a summer rain storm ZS feet, then before falling 

 it breaks into a fine mist and comes down naturally, and comes 

 nearer to being the natural method than any other method. 

 And it is also cheaper to build. It is unnecessary for a man 

 to stand with a hose. One of our gardeners told me in the 

 drouth last summer his cost of labor for watering was over $40 

 for putting it on with a hose, and this man has about 100 acres 

 in vegetable work. With this system, perhaps once in half 

 an hour a man goes and turns the pipe over. It has to be 

 turned over four times to water this space of 70 feet wide. 

 The cost, I think, is something like $50 an acre to install it, 

 and will last for a number of years. Some of our growers 

 lay the pipe on the ground between the two rows of lettuce or 

 raised slightly off the ground and it turns very easily. ( Jthers 

 prefer to put it up 6 or 7 feet out of the wa}-, so that they 

 can walk under it and plough under it. In that case, a stake 

 is driven into the ground and a fork at the top in which the 

 pipe rests. 



It is a very simple method of irrigation, and since it first 

 came into use about three years ago, it has come into very 

 common use with strawberry men. and for long close work, 

 and for very extensive work outdoors. On high priced land, 

 muler the intensive method, where they don't care to take the 

 chances of losing tlieir crop, it is especially valuable. It is 

 especially valuable for celery, I.ecause we have got to get 



