IRRIGATION FARMING. 



each row of trees if the slope permitted. We believe 

 this plan will work as well as tiling, and to many who 

 are near gravel beds it will be much cheaper. Any 

 blossom rock or detached shale often found on plowed 

 ground can be used for this purpose, and cobblestones 

 or kidney rock would be just the thing. We believe a 

 trench plow has been invented for opening the trenches, 

 and the work ought to be done late in the fall or during 

 the mild days of winter, when nothing more urgent is 

 pressing. Brickbats, such as are found around the kilns 

 in a brickyard, could be placed in the trenches and would 

 answer admirably. The only expense connected with 

 the work would be that of labor, and the experiment 

 ought to pay well. 



Father Cole's Plan. The late Honorable A. N. 

 Cole, of Wellsville, New York, inaugurated a system of 



FIG. 94. FATHEK POLE'S SYSTEM. 



trench irrigation which proved quite a success and elic- 

 ited so much enthusiasm from the old gentleman that 

 he wrote a book on the subject in 1885, and a year or 

 two later the author had the pleasure of visiting Father 

 Cole and personally examining his work at "The Home 

 on the Hillside." His scheme was substantially that 

 described under the preceding caption, and while he 

 put in more time and labor in the detail and made his 

 trenches in a more pretentious way, he always said that 

 the extra work repaid him well. A sectional view of 

 Father Cole's works is given in Figure 94. 



