IRRIGATION SESSION 



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Mr. Work : The Skinner System would be good, or if you 

 had tried out the furrow system and found it satisfactory 

 with your conditions, that would be all right, and you would 

 not have to have the pressure. Most of the market gardeners 

 are using the Skinner System. It seems to me the common 

 idea among growers that you can install the Skinner System 

 for one hundred to one hundred twenty-five dollars per acre 

 outside of the water supply. I think that is a very fair 

 average cost. 



A Member : It cost me less than ninety dollars an acre to 

 put in my Skinner System. I set low stakes to run my pipes 

 over, so I can take them off in the fall. But it makes a great 

 deal of difference whether you run a long line and use long 

 pipes or a short line and use short pipes. My area is about 

 eighty rods wide, and it is very long. We used many short 

 lines. 



Question: Don't we need to remember that the price of 

 pipe fluctuates from year to year? 



Mr. Work : That is very true. Inch and a half galvaniz- 

 ed pipe costs thirteen cents; inch and a quarter, eleven cents; 

 inch pipe, eight cents; and three-quarter inch, five. 



A Member: I have bought it much cheaper than that. 



Question: Is a large size pump practicable for such a 

 system ? 



Mr. Warren : A two thousand gallon pump is big enough 

 for a big open furrow irrigation, too large for this system. 



Mr. Work: As to questions regarding the use, I would 

 recommend to you the Market Growers' Journal containing 

 gardeners' clubs on irrigation. 



IRRIGATION IN NEW YORK. 



Prof. Fippin (Cornell Department of Soil Technology) : Ir- 

 rigation has a place in New York agriculture and is being prac- 

 ticed to some extent. From limited observations it appears 

 to be practicable on the lighter soils devoted to intensive farm- 

 ing to crops worth fifty dollars or more per acre. For this 



