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and the cost to apply the water was ten cents an hour. 

 I used 16,000 gallons of water the first application and 

 10,000 gallons the second application. There was an 

 interval of a week between the waterings. The water 

 company charged fifteen cents for i,ooo gallons. The 

 piping and hose cost $60; water, $5.25; application to 

 the plants, $5.60; total, $70.85. I got the water- 

 plant ready to work May 19th. Up to this time I had 

 picked the patch over three times, and in my estimate 

 of the crop by those pickings I would have got about 

 seventy-five crates off the patch, but with the use 

 of water I gathered two hundred and twenty-five 

 24-quart crates of berries. In facft, one hundred and 

 fifty crates might be placed to the credit of my irriga- 

 tion experiment. One hundred and fifty crates at 

 $2.10 a crate, the average of the crop, figured up $3 15. 

 Subtracfting the water expense, $70.85, we have to the 

 credit of the experiment $244.15." 



