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time when offered for sale to pay for the amount expended. 

 Therefore the expense would be only the interest on the money 

 invested, besides the fuel and labor. We will allow $50.00 

 for interest, or $2.50 per acre for twenty acres. The cost of 

 running a pump for twenty-four hours would be : for coal 

 $3.00, for labor $7.00 (if run day and night), ad<litional help 

 in moving hose, etc., $1.00; making a total of $11.00 per 

 day to iiTigate four acres, or $2.75 per acre if only one 

 application was made, and a total cost of $5.25 per acre if 

 only one application was made. If two applications were 

 made, $4.00 per acre ; if three applications were made, $3.63 

 per acre ; if four applications, $3.38 per acre. 



Is there any crop grown that will not allow of this out- 

 lay upon it? If there is, then certainly there can be no profit 

 in gi'owing it, and we had better turn our attention to some- 

 thing else. 



I have seen, with three applications of water, a crop that 

 would not have brought $200 per acre, bring $1,000, and it 

 was all done in three weeks' time. 



I have seen others nearly doubled by one application, 

 made at the right time and in the right way. 



In closing I would say, arrange your land for irrigation ; 

 obtain the necessary equipment ; plant your crop for irriga- 

 tion, and plant those best adapted to soil and locality ; study 

 the subject and understand the requirements of your crop, 

 and you will find that there will be no department of your 

 farm or market garden that will be of so much benefit to 3^ou, 

 or that will so well pay you for the investment, or upon 

 which you will place so much confidence to insure you a 

 good crop in any season, as your well-arranged system of 

 irrigation. 



Moisture in Garden Crops. 



