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forty dollars per acre and twenty dollars per acre more 

 to clear off trees and brush. Soil is heavy clay loam 

 nine feet deep. 



For irrigation, the land was laid off in beds three 

 feet wide and water turned into the furrows between 

 the beds. These furrows joined at right angles an 

 irrigating trench which in turn drew its supply from 

 a flume running- along one side of the garden. Water 

 when irrigation was needed was drawn from an inch 

 hole bored in the flume where the trench joined it. The 

 supply to the furrows was controlled by a board with 

 two half -inch holes in it at junction of each furrow 

 with the trench. When irrigating, the inch hole in the 

 flume is unstopped, the water rushes into the trench 

 through the small holes into the furrows betw^een the 

 beds, soaking into them and thus watering the plants. 

 By plugging some of the small holes the flow- can be 

 limited or distributed as desired. Times of irrigation 

 averaged about once in ten days, occupying ten to 

 twenty minutes each time. Whole labor of irrigating 

 was valued at forty-eight cents. 



Watered from a Well. — A good well, a windmill 

 and some piping and hose made a successful garden of 

 D. S. Carnahan's quarter acre in Stafford county, Kan- 

 sas. Value of product w^as sixty-seven dollars and 

 sixty-eight cents ; cost, twenty-six dollars ; net, forty- 

 one dollars and sixty-eight cents. Previous attempts 

 without irrigation had proved failures. 



To insure success in this part of Kansas, writes 

 Mr. Carnahan, select ground w^here it can be irrigated. 

 Then thoroughly prepare the ground by plowing deep ; 

 the deeper the better. Prepare the seedbed by making 

 it very fine, as almost all garden seed are small and 

 much depends on getting^ them well started. Cultivate 

 the surface well, let no weeds grow^ Do not let them 



