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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



owners claim large returns on the loss. Within the last year or two the 



money invested. One man stated that plan of sinking iy 2 to 2-inch wells has 



he would not attempt to garden for been tried and its success is leading 



profit without such an assurance of to their extended use. A good 2-inch 



plenty of water when needed. Some well will furnish water for half a sec- 





Movable Sprinklers on the Farm of David Astle, Vineland, N. J. 



gardeners buy water from city supplies 

 and find it more satisfactory than to 

 install their own pumping plants. 



Descriptions of pumping plants of 

 various sizes and styles with their stoi - 

 age basins and distributing pipes are 

 given in this bulletin so that those in- 

 tending to try artificial watering may 

 profit by the experience of several suc- 

 cessful irrigators. 



Striking testimony in favor of irri- 

 gation is furnished by the careful com- 

 parison of crops from irrigated and 

 unirrigated plats of strawberries, as- 

 paragus, nursery stock, and onions at 

 the Missouri Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. Not only were yields larger, 

 but in the case of asparagus unirri- 

 gated rows were affected with rust 

 while the irrigated plants were entirely 

 free from the disease. 



A portion of South Dakota which 

 is noticeably benefited by a supple- 

 mentary water supply in the James 

 River Valley. In the first attempts to 

 utilize this supply of underground 

 water wells were made so large that 

 the excessive cost resulted in financial 







Canvas Hose Supported on Poles from Gasoline 

 Engine Pumping Station. 



