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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



Maj' 



pan}^ it would be the Tanbark and Val- 

 paraiso Oak the two oaks economically 

 most valuable on the coast. 



Furthermore, the water suppl}' from 

 the Carniel River will soon become in- 

 adequate or inferior for the growing 

 seaside towns on Monterey Bay, if the 



same protection from fire is not accorded 

 to the woods at the head of the stream. 

 In this protection of the Carmel and 

 the Arroyo Seco, one of the most inter- 

 esting conifers in the world, the Silver 

 Fir of the Santa Lucias, would be cared 

 for in its original home. 



RESULTS OF IRRIGATION IN WISCONSIN. 



By George H. Patch. 



THE method of irrigating our gar- 

 den bed of matted strawberries 

 is simply to lay a sluice hose along the 

 upper edge of the piece, open a few 

 ports at a time and let the water flood 

 as far as it will in a short time, then 

 open more ports and close the first, and 

 so on, till the whole strip is watered; 

 then move the hose out onto the plants 

 to the farther edge of the watered strip 

 and repeat the operation till the whole 

 is watered. 



A large percentage of the plants first 

 set in this bed died, and the remaining 

 ones were allowed to make runners to 

 furnish plants to fill in missing spaces. 

 Through neglect the whole became more 

 or less matted over. We intended to 

 run furrows for irrigating, but it seemed 

 a pity to tear out so man}' nice plants, 



and it was not done. Next time we will 

 run the furrows, or rather we will allow 

 no more beds to mat, so that pickers 

 will have something besides berries to 

 walk on. I mention this method of 

 irrigation because raspberries or other 

 small fruits mulched with straw could 

 be irrigated in this way without moving 

 the straw, by laying the hose on top of 

 the mulch, letting the water sink through 

 and spread under it. 



Under the direction of Professor King 

 about fifteen acres were laid out into 

 ten plats of about one and one-half acres 

 each, the main crops to correspond in 

 size to these plats, which were again 

 subdivided into a total of forty-eight 

 subplats. Alternate subplats were left 

 unmanured, and part of those manured 

 received twice as much manure as the 



ILLl'STRATION SHOWING THE FI^OW OF WATER THROWN BY THE PUMP USED BY MR. PATCH. 



