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THE IEE1GATION AGE. 



BRIEF NOTES FROM IRRIGATION PROJECTS 



Kansas 



Many new pumping plants have 

 been installed in Kansas this year. 

 An electrically propelled centrifugal 

 pump is pouring 1,800 gallons of wa- 

 ter per minute on to the Schuyler 

 Jones farm near Valley Center, in 

 the Arkansas valley. Four crops of 

 alfalfa have already been cut on this 

 farm and two more are expected, 

 while neighboring farms, not irri- 

 gated, will have but two or three cut- 

 tings. 



Walter Underwood has installed -a. 

 Skinner irrigation system on his truck 

 gardens in Hutchinson. 



E. G. Hoover has installed a ten- 

 inch pump, pulled by a 20 horsepower 

 engine, to irrigate his 160 acres near 

 Wichita. 



Chas. I./ Zirkle & Co. have put in 

 two pumps, each with a capacity of 

 1,100 gallons per minute and capable 

 of irrigating a half section, near Hut- 

 chinson. They are using gas and oil 

 and the cost per acre for irrigating 

 is figured at about 35 cents. 



William C. Mueller, living near 

 Hanover, is pumping water from the 

 Little Blue river. He is using a 15 

 horsepower engine and a pump with 

 capacity of 750 gallons per minute. 

 He is throwing the water up about 25 



feet. 



C. S. Drake of Valley Center states 

 that he has sold $500 worth of canta- 

 loupes off one and one-half acres of 

 land which he is irrigating. 



Page M. House, living near Wichi- 

 ta, is of the opinion that any man can 

 make a living from five acres of land 

 irrigated by water pumped from the 

 underflow of the Arkansas river. Mr. 

 House has installed a small plant on 

 his place and by means of electric 

 power pumps 300 gallons of water per 

 minute from a 15-inch casing in a well 

 47 feet deep. His entire plant, includ- 

 ing well, pump and motor, was in- 

 stalled for $500. 



Land near where Mr. House has a 

 tract of 42 acres is worth $300 per 

 acre, but good living for a family may 

 be made, from five or ten acres, said 

 he. Mr. House has two acres in corn 

 which he has irrigated and from 

 which he expects to get 200 bushels. 

 He set out black raspberry plants last 

 spring and from them gathered a few 

 berries this year. 



Plans are being made to irrigate the 

 forty-acre alfalfa field at the Kansas 

 Boys' State Industrial school. Ex- 

 periments indicate the idea is feasible. 



Washington. 



The directors of the West Okano- 

 gan Valley Irrigation district of 

 Washington have secured the cooper- 

 ation of the Great Northern railway 

 in the construction of the irrigation 

 canal which will water 12,000 acres 

 adjacent to Oroville. Construction 

 will begin this month. A large 

 amount of the land to be brought un- 

 der this canal has been listed for sale 

 at reasonable prices for the purpose 

 of encouraging immigration. 



Samuel Lapioli has finished install- 

 ing an electric pump on his 10-acre 

 tract and will irrigate his garden and' 

 orchard at Hayford, Wash. 



A United States government engi- 

 neer has been in Eltopia, Wash., mak- 

 ing soil surveys in connection with 

 the Palouse irrigation project. 



Water users under the Wenatchee 

 Canal company of Washington voted 

 down a proposition to form an irriga- 

 tion district to take over the system. 



Sentiment is quite unanimous that 

 in the near future an irrigation dis- 

 trict will have to be formed in order 

 to take over the high-line canal. It 

 supplies water to 13,000 acres, but the 



"One-Half the Alfalfa Seed^ 

 Sown is Wasted Every Year" 



This statement has been made by many recognized 

 Alfalfa experts men who know what they are talking 

 about. 



They say that they secured better stands 

 of Alfalfa with 10 pounds of seed, drilled 

 with the Superior Special Alfalfa and Grass 

 Seed Drill than with ^ 20 pounds of seed 

 sown broadcast. 



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None of the seed is wasted, when drilled in the ground 

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