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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



IRRIGATION BY MEANS OF 

 CANVAS TUBE. 



WASTE FROM DESKS GOES 

 INTO BRUSHES. 



A very interesting contrivance was 

 demonstrated last summer at the Col- 

 lege farm. It consists of a long can- 

 vas tube in which are placed small 

 brass gates, so placed that each gate 

 will come opposite a row down which 

 it is desired to discharge irrigation 

 water. The tube is laid along the 

 high part of the field, connected with 

 the ditch at the upper end, the water 

 runs through this tube without; the 

 water is discharged through the gate 

 openings in the amount desired by 

 the irrigator, and the supply for each 

 tube is controlled by opening the 

 small gates in the tubes. The canvas 

 tube decreases in size as it extends 

 from the ditch so that the smaller 

 head of water flowing at the extreme 

 lower end is carried through a much 

 smaller tube, and thereby a saving 

 of material is obtained. 



So far as the control of irrigation 

 water is concerned this device is 

 ideal. Further than that it is easily 

 changed from place to place by al- 

 lowing the water to run out of it and 

 then dragging it along the ground. 

 The only thing that will have to be 

 watched is that it is thoroughly 

 cleaned when irrigation ceases, be- 

 cause the canvas will of course in 

 time rot, and the same care must be 

 given a tube of this kind as is given 

 to the ordinary canvas dam in order 

 to preserve the same. 



E. B. HOUSE, 



Colorado Agricultural College, 

 Fort Collins, Colo. 



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 | Says Co/. Experience: 



"I have managed to keep my 

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 open these many years and 

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 Through fair weather and 

 through rain, through Jan- 

 uary's blizzards and July's 

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Waste wood in the manufacture of 

 school desks is now being used for 

 the backs of cheap brushes, accord- 

 ing to the statement of the forest 

 service. 



A large manufacturer of school 

 desks in Michigan had a considerable 

 amount of waste material in sizes 

 which were too short to enter into 

 the manufacture of the smallest desks, 

 and could not be utilized further with 

 his machinery or in his line of work. 

 This material was all hard maple in 

 pieces an inch thick, a foot or so long, 

 and about three inches wide; for a 

 long time it had been consigned to 

 the waste pile and sold as firewood. 

 This waste amounted to from one 

 thousand to fifteen hundred board feet 

 each day. A nearby manufacturer 

 was using practically this quantity of 

 maple, which he was sawing up into 

 small pieces for making the backs of 

 cheap brushes. 



Members of the forest service, in- 

 vestigating methods of eliminating 



factory waste, conceived the idea that 

 the blocks used by the brush factory 

 could be readily secured from the 

 waste of the school desk manufac- 

 turer, and on this basis got the two 

 together. Arrangements were made 

 so that the brush manufacturer now 

 places orders with the other firm for 

 its raw material and what was former- 

 ly waste is now a source of profit. 



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