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IRRIGATION FARMING. 



an unsuccessful 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 $97 for labor, gasoline oil, 

 and all incidentals. He kept a stri(5l account of the 

 expenses for his own satisfadlion, 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 con- 

 sideration. On 

 rolling land, 

 such as found on 

 many farms, it is 

 entirely feasible 

 to build a cistern 

 or reservoir in a 

 side-hill, as shown in Fig. 105, 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 



FIG. 105 — CISTERN AND LIQUID 

 MANURE SPREADER. 



