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in our County where irrigation can be successfully practised with 

 trifling expense compared with the benefits, though the owners 

 now look on the object as impracticable for such localities. There 

 are but few farms that have not some facilities for irrigation, if 

 they are sought for and made available. In some cases the 

 sources whence Avater may be obtained are not on the land most 

 requiring it, but by a small amount of labor a head may be raised 

 where a supply is found in swamps or ponds, and by channels it 

 may be conveyed to the places where it is wanted. It is not un- 

 usual to see water carried for miles along the sides of mountains 

 and hills for the purpose of irrigation, in countries where the ben- 

 efits of the process are duly appreciated. Here, we often see a 

 brisk stream of pure water running through a dry pasture in a 

 crooked channel. In many cases, if proper attention were given, 

 it could without much expense be dammed -and carried along the 

 head of the descent and spread over the whole or a great portion 

 of the pasture during several of the spring and fall months, and, 

 perhaps, by opening the springs, a supply might be obtained that 

 Avould continue through the summer. 



" The eye, Avithout any instrument, is not in all cases sufficient 

 to show whether the ground is level or otherwise. It is often 

 more apt to mislead than to afford a correct guide in regard to 

 the surface of the land. Sometimes the raisins; of the source 

 from which water is to be taken for irrigation, changes the course 

 of streams. On a part of my own land Avhere I first made the 

 attempt to irrigate, the water in some of the channels ran east ; 

 but a change in the source causes them to run directly west, in 

 the same channels. 



" My plan for distributing the water, is to convey it from the 

 reservoir to the upper end of the pear-tree lot, where it falls into an 

 artificial channel or ditch, Avhich extends across the lot at the ends 

 of all the rows of trees, strawberries, &c. To that side of the 

 ditch next the ends of the rows, is fitted a two-inch plank ten or 

 twelve inches wide, set edgeAvise, and through the plank, at inter- 

 vals of four feet and a half, corresponding with the distance of the 

 rows from each other, a round drain-pipe of an inch bore is in- 

 serted, with a cork to each, by which the whole or any portion of 

 them may be closed when desired. Each row of trees, strawber- 

 ries, &c., is thus supplied with an equal quantity of water. When 

 the Avater has run down the whole length of the roAvs, it falls into 

 a similar ditch as that at the upper end, and is from thence dis- 

 tributed over the grass field beloAV, or let into a reservoir in which 

 is put strong manure, for the purpose of making liquid manure, 

 which is distributed in rivulets over the mowing land — a method 

 of spreading manure which is found to be of great advantage, 

 and requiring httle labor. 



