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passing the fluid from the cistern to the wagon, because 

 the need of pumps and power is dispensed with. 

 Attached to the cart should be a liquid-spreader such 

 as adopted on most city street-sprinkling wagons. It 

 is merely a semicircular trough at the end of a pipe, 

 through which the water flows. On being freed from 

 the pipe the water is forced downward, then it is spread 

 in a thin sheet regularly over an even area. Straw, 

 sawdust, and other refuse passes through. Such a 

 cart is useful also in watering crops in dry weather. 

 Filled with water it may be left in the center of the 

 lawn or garden, and the whirling lawn-sprinkler and 

 hose attached to it play all night over the grass, straw- 

 berries, etc. The advantages it presents are numerous. 

 It may be only partly filled with the liquid fertilizer 

 where the stuff is too strong, and its contents diluted 

 with water before distribution. This plan is often 

 advantageous where the liquid is hauled up a steep 

 hill. We can see where this cistern could be made to 

 discharge its contents into a lateral of running irriga- 

 tion water, and the manure carried diredl to the land 

 in this way. Some such scheme will have to be de- 

 vised. 



Manure Vat. — An excellent fertilizer vat or set- 

 tler used successfully by many irrigation gardeners 

 consists of a barrel, hogshead or box sunk in the 

 ground at the highest point reached by an irrigating 

 ditch on the garden plat. This vat can be made of old 

 slabs if nothing better is available and will last for 

 many years. It should be filled with well-rotted 

 manure of any kind, having some hay, corn-stalks, or 

 brush mixed to keep it from becoming solid. The 



