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IRRIGATION ROUND TABLE 



Mr. Rogers: Anytime. Some say it burns the plants, but Mr. 

 Seabrook, the man for whom I worked, has not found it so. He has 

 about twenty -five acres under the Skinner system, and he is increas- 

 ing it all the time. The profits from the farm last year were $20,000 

 clear, about ninety per cent of which was from the twenty-five acres. 

 It is a sandy loam soil, a typical South Jersey soil. Sixty tons of 

 Newark manure were used. 



Question: What does he grow.^^ 



Mr. Rogers: He raised chiefly lettuce. He has not been very 

 successful with celery. During summer he raises a good many beets 

 and a few carrots, potatoes, and onions. 



Mr. Work: What is his source of water supply .^^ 



Mr. Rogers : A brook on one side of the farm. 



Mr. Work: Did he use a strainer? 



Mr. Rogers : He lets it run through a box. Occasionally when 

 the nozzle fills, he uses a straw to get the dirt out. 



Mr. Work: Does he grow lettuce in the summer .^^ 



Mr. Rogers: His chief lettuce crops are in the fall and spring. 

 He grows three crops on all his land, with chiefiy beets in the summer. 

 He shipped one thousand hampers of lettuce every day for about 

 thirty days last fall. This went to the New York and Philadelphia 

 markets. 



Mr. Work: And he used the water at any time.^^ 



Mr. Rogers: Yes. He had an engine of perhaps fourteen 

 horse power, and had a well from which he got water to wash the 

 plants with. He intends to make the system much larger, and has 

 incorporated and capitalized the farm for $150,000. This is four 

 miles from Bridge ton. 



Mr. Work: Most men seem to use the direct system nowadays 

 for irrigation. The modern pumps are good. The triplex and 

 duplex pumps give a very steady flow, and are economical. 



Question: How far can the water be pumped? 



Mr. Rogers: Mr. Seabrook pumps it about one-quarter mile. 



Question: Do you have to have the en^jine and pump pretty 

 close to the supply? 



