24 VEGETABLE GROWING. 



WATER AXD WATERING. 



In all vegetable and fruit growing, the question of 

 watering is an important one ; it is a necessary factor 

 from the time the seed is planted to the time the crop 

 is harvested. A sufficient amount of water must be 

 applied either naturally or artificially. Where it can 

 be supplied, either by artesian wells or by irrigation, 

 the vegetable grower has a considerable advantage 

 over his neighbors who have not this supply. In dry 

 seasons his crops will not suffer from drouth, and the 

 crop will bring more money in consequence of its short- 

 ness elsewhere. Much of our vegetable land can be 

 supplied with water from artesian wells ; their useful- 

 ness in this respect has already been demonstrated. 

 Another source of water for use in vegetable growing, 

 and one that is not being employed to a oy considerable 

 extent in the South, is the flowing streams. In many 

 cases there is enough flowing water to supply all or a 

 great portion of the land with water in dry times. 

 Water may be raised to considerable height by the 

 use of a hydraulic ram. One of these machines will 

 run without any attention after it has been put in 

 place and put to running. A single discharge may be 

 quite small, yet when it runs twenty four hours with- 

 out stopping a considerable amount of water will have 

 been lifted. The amount of water that one of these 

 machines will raise depends on the height the water is 

 being raised and the amount of water that is flowing 

 in the stream that supplies the water. Under the 

 most favorable conditions a ram will raise two sevenths 

 of the flowing water four feet, if there is a fall of two 

 feet ; or it may raise one twentieth the water one hun- 

 dred and twenty feet above the source if there is a fall 



