360 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Scorr. Would the application of this small supply of water 
save the crop in the lean years? 
Mr. Mxap. Yes; it is probable that in lean years you could not save 
your whole crop. In the lean years in many sections you would have 
to confine it to your 10 or 20 acre garden and alfalfa patch, but there 
are relatively large areas—I do not mean the whole country, but prob- 
ably 10 per cent of the whole country—where it could be irrigated 
every year. 
Mr. Scorr. Your work in Kansas was carried on at Hays City? 
Mr. Meap. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Scott. Will you tell us what you did there? 
Mr. Mrap. Yes; we laid out 10 acres of land for irrigation, put 
down a well and installed a pumping plant, and irrigated during the 
season the staple farm products to determine what would be the effect 
of irrigation, and to ascertain what was the cost of pumping. Those 
were the two things we did last year. That is as far as we tried to go 
with them. Last year happened to be in that section of Kansas a fat 
year. They had what everybody believed to be an ample rainfall, but 
the increase in yields in the different crops that were irrigated varied. 
from 25 to 77 per cent. So that it showed its value even in the best 
ear. 
‘ Mr. Scorr. What did you demonstrate there as to the cost of 
pumping? 
Mr. Mean.’ It paid, even in that year. 
Mr. Scorr. Can you give an idea as to the actual cost? 
Mr. Meav. No; I can not without figures, and I did not bring those 
with me. 
Mr. Burteson. What is approximate cost of the outfit? 
Mr. Meap. The outfit costs about $1,000. 
Mr. Haucren. How deep did you have to go for the water? 
Mr. Mean. Between 20 and 30 feet. The well is 30 feet deep, but 
the water level varied. : 
ae The expense depends largely on the distance you have 
to lift? 
Mr. Meap. Yes; the expense of lifting depends on the height. 
Mr. Brooxs. Are those pump plants easily within the reach of the 
individual farmer? 
Mr. Mzap. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Brooks. You are conducting experiments, are you not, on the 
line of finding out the depth of the subterranean water supply? 
Mr. Mrap. No; we have not been carrying on our experiments 
with that in view. What we are doing is to determine the best means 
of applying water; that is, to find out how many acres of land you 
can irrigate with a cubic foot per second of water; how you can spread 
that out so as to get the most out of it. That isthe fundamental idea. 
Mr. Scorr. Have you concluded your work at Hays, or do you 
expect to continue it this year? 
Mr. Meap. We expect to continue it, and we expect to supplement 
that by work farther west in the State. 
Mr. Scorr. What power do you use in lifting the water? 
Mr. Mrap. That depends on different places. 
Mr. Lams. What kind of power did you use at Hays? 
Mr. Meap. We simply tsed last year an ordinary traction engine. 
Mr. Burxeson. I understand you could carry ona system of experi- 
