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uses. It would be good policy for towns and cities to allow 

 farmers the use of water from public works and at low rates 

 within prescribed limits, provided that the source of supply 

 was sufficient. It would tend to increase business and advance 

 prosperity among those who deserve and often need it. 



Wind-mills are the cheapest source of supply, drawing from 

 streams, ponds, open or driven wells, where a smaller surface is 

 to be irrigated and large storage basins can be located on a 

 neighboring hill with suitable head, or in tanks ; but, under 

 other circumstances, the steam-pump can always be depended 

 upon, and requires no storage basin ; and while the first cost 

 of this is perhaps greater than the wind-mill, the results are 

 very far ahead. In Holland large wind-mills are in universal 

 and profitable use throughout that low country, and are indis- 

 pensable in drawing off the surplus water, which would other- 

 wise flood it, by emptying it into canals which have their out- 

 lets in the sea, or in rivers. The reverse of this is suggestive 

 in favorable locations. 



It is not for me at this time to explain the details of the 

 numerous methods of applying water to crops, but they are 

 such as all can readily become familiar with, and can be found 

 described in a little book by Henry Stewart, published in 1877, 

 and which can be commended to our libraries as valuable for 

 their farm-departments. I triist that this subject will be found 

 attractive, and that the obstacles to be met with in arguing 

 4ts merits, will prove only temporary, and be soon destroyed 

 by the force of well directed thought and the intelligence of 

 farmers. 



FORESTRY. 



The importance of the subject of forestry to which I have 



