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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



could with that horse, but I wanted to hold the moisture 

 as well as to break up that crust on the adobe spots. 



All the corn came up, and after it was all up and 

 looking fine there was 85 per cent of a perfect stand, but 

 still I didn't know just how I was going to irrigate that 

 corn. 



On the 8th of June I started my one-horse cultivator 

 a common, ordinary five-tooth cultivator going. 



On the 13th of June I crossed the field with a two- 

 horse hitch on the same harrow that I had been using 

 one section of, having added the other section to it. I 

 had one of the boys follow on behind, and rake off the 

 soil on what corn had been covered up too deep. 



I kept the cultivator going over it about every five or 

 seven days, for it was growing an inch a day in Idaho, 

 and the weeds I kil]ed when doing that cultivating. 



On the 1st of July it had not yet been irrigated. I 

 ran water in some of the furrows, and as soon as it got 

 through I moved the water over to the other rows. Some 

 of these rows that had received a little more water than 

 the others, when it got down to the far end, by planting 

 this corn in checks, I could handle it both ways, for there 

 were a few rows not wet enough. 



Ten days later that five-acre plat of corn was the talk 

 of the neighborhood. Where the plat had formerly been 

 raising weeds, here was corn like that raised in Iowa. 



When it had been planted GO days the average height 

 over the entire five-acre tract was 60 inches. 



The last of July and August I gave this corn all the 

 water it would take, and kept on cultivating. 



On the 13th of August I shut the water off because 

 the corn was ready to mature up. 



In September the leaves had begun to turn that yel- 

 low color, indicating maturity, and also the ears had begun 

 to turn yellow, and some ears were very well matured 

 even to their very tips. 



The average height of this corn was 9 and 10 feet, 

 and some few stalks weie 12 feet. It was very even all 

 over the tract, even these adobe spots producing excel- 

 lent corn. 



As a result, three acres of this corn filled a silo 10 



feet in diameter and 30 feet high, according to the silo 

 estimate, holding 45 tons of ensilage, or in other words, 

 there was enough ensilage to feed 10 dairy cows almost 

 eight months. 



The remainder of the corn I shucked, which averaged 

 me 60 bushels to the acre. 



I kept track of the cost of growing that corn, and 

 found it ran $7.50 per acre, counting 60 cents an acre for 

 water. It cost 75 cents a ton to cut this corn up and put 

 it irt the silo, not counting our own labor we had on the 

 farm. Counting our own labor at the same wages we 

 paid other help, cost $1.25 per ton to put this corn into 

 the silo after it was grown. 



I had some worms in that corn. If the land had been 

 plowed in the fall there would have been practically no 

 worms, because the larvae eggs would have been turned 

 up and exposed to the winter weather, and a large part of 

 them killed. J. L. STINSUN. 



Note. The above interesting shorthand notes were taken by 

 Frank S. Reid. Wendell, Idaho, at the State Dairy Association meeting 

 held in Twin Falls, Idaho, January 3d and 4th, 1912. 



PROPOSES NEW LAWS FOR IRRIGATION DIS- 

 TRICTS. 



Lamar, Colo., January 30, 1912. 

 Editor IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago, 111. 



Dear Sir: Having some land in the southeastern 

 part of Colorado that is in a proposed irrigation district, 

 the directors of which have met with much difficulty to 

 dispose of the bonds of the district before beginning 

 construction work, on account, I presume, of seeming 

 inadequate security, therefore I take the liberty of ad- 

 dressing you and suggest an irrigation and drainage law 

 that would expedite all irrigation or drainage enter- 

 prises. As you are aware, all such projects are handi- 

 capped under the present law and are subject to delay 

 and excessive costs. 



Could not a law be passed by Congress simplifying 

 the procedure and lessening the cost of construction and 

 assuring to the owner of irrigable or wet land a minimum 

 cost of any proposed irrigation or drainage works and 



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