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distance between the rows is three feet nine inches. 

 One of the advantages of this machine is that the roots 

 of the plants are not doubled up as in the stuffing hand 

 process, but the chief advantage is the saving of labor. 

 One machine operated by a driver and two skillful 

 boys can do the work of twelve men. The machine will 

 plant ten acres in a day and a half. 



Watering Cart. Where a small area of valuable 

 crops is to be covered only occasionally in a season, very 

 satisfactory results may be obtained with a watering 

 cart. The author has a friend in Colorado who used one 

 and was much pleased with it. He had an orchard of 

 over one hundred acres, for which he made an unsuccess- 

 ful attempt to get water for less than $2.50 an acre. He 

 then put in a gasoline engine, pumping 15,000 gallons 

 in two hours against a sixty-foot head. He irrigated his 

 trees with the cart, having to convey the water as far as 

 half a mile. He employed five men, gave each tree 

 fifteen gallons of water, and did the entire job at a cost 

 of 897 for labor, gasoline oil, and all incidentals. He 

 kept a strict account of the expenses for his own satis- 

 faction, and states that the cost of gasoline for the job 

 was $3.80. He simply hauled the water in the cart to a 

 tree where a border had previously been dug, and turned 

 in enough water from the tank cart to fill the border. 



Liquid Manuring. The utilization of liquid 

 manure on all farms is an important consideration. On 

 rolling land such as found on many farms it is entirely 

 feasible to build a cistern or reservoir in a sidehill, as 

 shown in Figure 92, to which the liquid may be conveyed 

 by pipes or troughs from the barn, and from which it 

 may be let into a water-tight vehicle through a rude 

 flood gate or large pipe faucet by gravity, the wagon 

 standing below the level of the reservoir. Nor will this 

 method be made less valuable by clogging in passing the 

 fluid from the cistern to the wagon, because the need- of 



