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throughout the field, to keep from having to go back to the 

 well each time for water. The head row should always 

 be run along the highest part of the field. This system is 

 used very extensively in the Sanford section and gives per- 

 fect satisfaction. It cost about $75 per acre to install it. 



Another system of irrigation consists of running the 

 water on top of the ground along the side of the vegetable 

 rows, and last but not least, the Skinner or overhead system. 

 1 must confess that even though I use the sub-irrigation 

 on my own farm, that if I were to put in any more irriga- 

 tion, it would be the Skinner system. But I will leave the 

 explanation of this to J\lr. T. F. Holdbrook, manager of 

 the Skinner Irrigation Company of Florida, who was kind 

 enough to write a special article on it for use in this book. 



If you cannot afford either the Skinner or sub-irrigation, 

 then run the water along the side of the rows in a shallow 

 ditch or trench. This style of irrigation is practiced in the 

 Hastings section and the farmers are well pleased with it, 

 as they get perfect results from their crops. If you use this 

 system you should have a uniform fall of about three inches 

 to the hundred feet, and you will find you get better results 

 if you turn the water into these trenches every five or six 

 days, then in two or three days after give the field a 

 throrough working. 



SKINNER IRRIGATION. 



The Skinner system of irrigation, which is so largely 

 used in Florida, has been developed to a point where it is 

 probably the most complete and perfect method of watering 

 yet devised. 



The efforts of the Skinner Irrigation Company have been 

 directed toward developing an equipment which would prove 

 an absolute uniformity of distribution in a manner best 

 adapted to the fullest development of the crop and by such. 



