CHAPTER XIII. 



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IRRIGATION OF THE GARDEN. 



There is no part of a farm that ought to receive 

 more attention in the way of cultivation and irrigation 

 than the garden, and it is here that the most flattering 

 results may be obtained as the reward for one's labor. 

 The first thing to be done after securing a suitable loca- 



tion is to thoroughly 



break and pulverize the 

 soil. As irrigation is 

 an essential element of 

 success, the garden spot 

 should be harrowed, lev- 

 ele,d and rolled, so that 

 water can easily be car- 

 ried to all parts equally. 

 After many years of 

 careful observation and 

 experience the writer is 

 constrained to say that 

 it is a better plan to 

 have the garden laid out 

 in the form of a paral- 

 lelogram, with the nar- 



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row and highest end 

 abutting on the lateral. 

 In this way the water 

 may easily be taken from 

 the ditch, and if the rows of crops run the entire length 

 of the patch there will be no difficulty from jipplying 

 water to one crop at the expense of another. 



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