178 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



cabbage, where you get through as quick as you can. On 

 strawberries I should carry my water to the upper end of 

 the rows, and have a little faucet from the pipe at the upper 

 end to go down every furrow, open my faucet, and let the 

 water trickle down. That is the way I water my cucumbers. 

 I only have one man when I water my cucumbers. I 

 arrange the pipe so as to go between the cucumbers, and 

 have an inch faucet ; then I set the pump going and open 

 the faucets, and the water runs down all the rows, so there is 

 no necessity for a man at all. When I think I have it wet 

 enough I stop the pump and the water stops too. You will 

 notice that in my essay I say that the cucumber contains the 

 most water of any vegetable. There is only 4.4 per cent of 

 solids in the cucumber, and 95.6 per cent of moisture. It 

 is pretty difficult to get too much water upon cucumbers. 

 I have twenty-five acres on my place, and I could not irri- 

 gate them unless I run the pump night and day ; it takes 

 me just a week to get through it, then I have to begin again. 

 Now this year, some of you may think it strange that I used 

 a pump at all. I ran my pump six weeks night and day in 

 the months of June and July. I have not run it since. 

 [Laughter.] 



Question. I would like to ask Mr. Rawson if he thinks 

 there are many wells from which he could run his pump 

 night and day? 



Mr. Rawson. No, sir. I never saw a dug well from 

 which I could run a pump at all. 



A Voice. Mr. Rawson is situated right on a river, and 

 pumps from the river, or so near it that it is the same as 

 from the river. 



Mr. Rawson. No, sir. I pump from a well sixty feet 

 below the river. My water is taken from a driven well. I 

 never saw a dug well that would supply a steam pump ; but 

 a driven well is a different thing, and you can pump from a 

 driven well by striking a current of water that will supply 

 the steam pump. I never have been on a place yet of ten 

 or twenty acres but what I found a current somewhere that 

 would carry a steam pump. One of my wells is sixty and 

 the other is eighteen feet below the bottom of the cellar. 

 Either one of them supplies the steam pump, and they are 



