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pipe. Part of this is done now; then I 
will be able to take care of the orchard 
with about one-fourth the cost of doing 
it the old-fashioned way.” 
Cost of Pumping from Well 
The cost of installation and mainten- 
ance of a pumping plant in the Moses 
Coulee District, Washington, is thus re: 
ported by Mr. H. G. Otis: 
“My well is 3971-3 feet deep. It is 224 
feet from the surface of the ground to 
the water. The well is 10 inches in- 
side diameter and takes a casing 8% 
inches. I have a 32-H.P. Fairbanks- 
Morse oil-burning engine and a No. 30 
Pomona pump head. The cylinder is 8 
inches, double stroke. The casing is 
275 feet, so that the cylinder is immersed 
about 50 feet in the water. The well 
furnishes all the water we can pump, of 
a very excellent quality. The cost of 
drilling the well was $6 per foot for the 
first 300 feet and $6.50 for the 97 1-3 feet. 
The cost of the engine and pump com- 
plete is $3,100. 
“We can run on three gallons of oil 
per hour and the oil costs, laid down at 
Quincy, 744 cents per gallon. I pay my 
engineer $2.00 per day and board and it 
takes very little of his time in running 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
the plant. He can put in most of his 
time attending to irrigating. 
“The plant furnishes 310 gallons per 
minute and we figure that this will fur- 
nish water for 160 acres. I will have the 
land well piped and try to economize as 
much as possible. My well house is 18x42 
with a concrete floor. The installing of 
the plant cost about $200. The work is 
very well done and on a solid concrete 
base. We have installed 2,500 feet of 
6-inch inside diameter concrete pipe with 
bell-shape ends. We have 2-inch and 1- 
inch outlets which we use in irrigating 
trees or alfalfa. This pipe cost 20 cents 
per foot F. O. B. Quincy. The freight on 
the 2,500 feet was $80. We are now in- 
stalling 3,600 feet of 6-inch and 5-inch 
galvanized tin pipe which cost 15 cents 
for the 6-inch and 12% cents for the 5- 
inch F. O. B. Wenatchee. We like the 
tin pipe a great deal the best. 
“The cost of pumping is about $4 per 
acre. I would suggest that on a large 
scale the work could be done at less ex- 
pense and would suggest that several 
farmers go in together to put down a 
large well and a large engine with elec- 
tric motor and run the pump and all 
other machinery on the farm by elec- 
tricity. This I think is a far better way.” 
Fig. 4. Pumping Plant of Mr. F. B. Allard. 
Standpipe to left has a sprinkler at the top. 
