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tection. This feature is especially valuable, and it has been 

 demonstrated that during the last winter, in Texas, crops 

 have been brought through a three days' freeze accompanied 

 by a high wind when the thermometer reached a point i6 

 below freezing. 



The Skinner system costs $150 to $250 per acre to 

 install. It provides a means of water distribution whereby 

 every inch of soil receives the same amount of water. With 

 this system earlier maturity of the crop is secured ; the labor 

 of irrigating is eliminated; frost protection is provided, and 

 every inch of soil can be made to produce the maximum 

 crops. Growers are beginning to realize the importance of 

 the correct water distribution, and it is needless to state 

 that in the growing sections, where high priced crops are 

 produced, as is the case in Florida, there is not a crop or a 

 season when the increased returns, as the result of irrigation 

 by means of the Skinner system, will not pay the entire cost 

 of the system. Many growers who have irrigated onlv a 

 part of their acreage have reached the conclusion that it is 

 not profitable for them to grow crops outside of the irrigated 

 acreage. 



The Skinner system can be seen in use throughout the 

 entire State of Florida, as well as in all truck-growing sec- 

 tions of the United States. Its practicability is demonstrat- 

 ed, and although its use originally was intended simply 

 to protect against drought, yet, in more recent experience, 

 it has been shown that the application of water in correct 

 amounts and at proper times, is a most essential factor in 

 producing the best crops with the earliest maturitv, and 

 which will obtain the highest market prices. 



T. F. HOLDBROOK. 



