WATER SUPPLY 



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lying on either side of a small brook, a short distance from the 

 college. A dam, three hundred feet long, eighteen feet deep, 

 and ten feet wide, was constructed, the water piped to the col- 

 lege grounds, and now we have an almost inexhaustible supply 

 of water at a cost of two thousand dollars, exclusive of piping. 



Professor Robinson, Horticulturist of the Maryland Agricul- 

 tural College, told me of an instance where one man in his 

 state built a wind-mill and large tank in the centre of his ten- 

 acre trucking farm, who claimed that because he was able to 

 irrigate, he had realized over and above ordinary returns, 

 enough in two years to more than pay for his additional equip- 



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College Floricultural Grounds. Irrigated. 



ment. One of the most practical methods of irrigation is that 

 of Mr. S. S. Bailey, of East Paris, Michigan, an account of 

 which was given in The Rural New Yorker^ February 9, 1S95. 

 A small brook was checked by a dam eight rods long, six feet 

 high, and broad enough on top to drive a team, thus making a 

 pond covering three-quarters of an acre. Mr. Bailey claims to 

 be able by proper husbanding to relieve from drouth from 

 fifty to eighty acres, as well as to raise the maximum of the 

 crop. Under head of results in a dry season, he writes that the 

 comparative results with sweet corn were as $10 is to $93, not 

 taking into account the extra fodder obtained. With field corn, 



