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sprinklers, placed at the ends of three-eighths-inch pipes 

 projecting from the sectional pipes, were so arranged as to 

 be twenty feet apart. 



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a = Main pipe. b = Sectional pipes. c = Sprinklers. 



By this method there was an equal distribution of water 

 over the whole patch. These sprinklers, by the way, are 

 known as the Neora lawn sprinkler, olitained from the Wal- 

 worth Manufacturing Company, Boston. 



Now, as regards our process of sprinkling, we were accus- 

 tomed to water every other day, weather })ermitting, and 

 used two sections at a time, for the main pipe was not large 

 enough to supply them all at once. The two sections 

 sprinkled from half to three-quarters of an hour, and thus 

 when all four sections had been used the patch was watered 

 in one or one and a half hours. 



To illustrate the rapidity and convenience of this method, 

 it is enough to say that it would take two men with three- 

 fourths-inch hose three or four hours to do the same work 

 in a less thorough fashion. At the same time, this system 

 of sprinkling had its disadvantages. When the sprinklers 

 had not been used for some time a scale rust was apt to form 

 in the pipe. This collection of rust became loosened when 

 the water was again turned on, and at length stopped up the 

 sprinklers. 



Owing to the large amount of rain during the past sum- 

 mer, we seldom used the sprinklers. Our experience has 

 taught us, however, that this mode of watering is now in a 

 rather crude state. Still, it has given thus far satisfactory 



