Irrigation. 



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yearly cost has been reduced, in some cases, as low as from one to three 

 dollars per acre per year. 



" Wherever drainage is not perfect, it must be made so before irriga- 



The Monarch of the West Strawberry. 



Watering Plants in the Twilight. 



tion can be safely practiced; 

 otherwise, if a heavy fall of 

 rain should occur just after application 

 of water, the plants might suffer seri- 

 ously from being too wet." 



In the discussion which followed 

 the reading of this paper, Mr. John B. 

 Moore said, among other things : " No crop takes the moisture out of 

 the soil more quickly than strawberries, and, for these and other crops 

 which soon suffer from dryness, he lets the water run down the rows all 

 night from half a dozen large pipes." 



Hon. Marshall T. Wilder then remarked that "the secret how Mr. 

 Moore produced his large strawberries had now come out" 



(In a letter recently received, Mr. Moore further states : " In the 

 garden, I have had the best results where I have let the water run out of 



