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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



IRRIGATION IN EAST AND SOUTH 



(Continued from page 303.) 



On the government demonstration farm in Ala- 

 bama it has been found this year that by the appli- 

 cation of irrigation waters garden truck can be ma- 

 tured almost at will and when the markets are at 

 the highest point. A spraying system of irrigation 

 is used on five acres of this farm. Under the super- 

 vision of the government experts irrigation systems 

 are being installed on a number of farms in the 

 Selnia district. On many of them the furrow sys- 

 tem of irrigation will be used. 



The berry growers of Warren county, Ken- 

 tucky, are installing one of the first large co-oper- 

 ative irrigation systems in the East. Their plant 

 will be one of the overhead variety and will cost 

 them about $200 per acre. 



Perforated pipes are to be set about sixty feet 

 apart above the berry beds. Into these the water 

 will be pumped at sufficient pressure to hurl sprays 

 of water thirty feet. 



These growers were forced to make this devel- 

 opment after suffering an aggregate loss from 

 drouth in two years of more than $100,000. They 

 also expect the spraying system to prove of addi- 

 tional value in the early spring by warding off late 

 'frosts. 



When drouth threatened to completely destroy 

 the garden at the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffer- 

 sonville this summer the warden offered a dem- 

 onstration of irrigation possibilities in the Hoosier 

 state that has jarred many farmers from their 

 lethargy and .willingness to accept whatever nature 

 brings. He put fifty prisoners to work in the fields 

 constructing ditches and .within a day completed an 



irrigation system that saved the crops. The ex- 

 periment at the reformatory will be continued and 

 the state's agricultural experts hope to use its les- 

 sons in increasing interest among the Indiana 

 farmers in the value of irrigation. 



Just a little ways out of Chicago there is a 

 farmer who is outdoing the canteloupe growers of 

 the West as to profits per acre, because he irrigates. 

 He has a flowing artesian well on his place. Other 

 truck gardeners and farmers, whose lands adjoin 

 his, are making just mediocre profits because they 

 depend only on the natural rainfall. 



In the truck garden districts of Iowa several 

 different systems of irrigation are being used. Elec- 

 tricity, gasoline engines and windmills are being 

 used to pump water. In the bottomlands along the 

 Mississippi river a large number of pumping plants 

 have been put in operation this year. There are 

 thirty-seven eight-inch wells down on one large 

 tract near Fruitland. 



Irrigation is being advocated among the berry 

 growers of Missouri. As strawberries are about 90 

 per cent water and good Missouri berries are worth 

 $2.00 a crate, the irrigation arguments have proven 

 pretty effective this year. 



Irrigation is being used effectively for celery 

 and other truck crops in Michigan. 



One might- write pages and pages about these 

 beginnings, and experiments in irrigation which are 

 being made in the East and South. Each one is 

 doing its educational work. Each one is demon- 

 strating to the farmers its value. Each one will 

 result in the installation of more of these "crop in- 

 surance" plants. 



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