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Irrigating Large Lawns. 
“What is the best method of irrigat- 
ing large lawns?” 
The best method to adopt depends 
largely on the source and efficiency 
of the supply at command. If the 
source affords an ample and efficient 
supply by gravitation or water is ob- 
tainable from the City Service Sys- 
tem in sufficient volume and pressure, 
the problem then becomes one of 
proper distribution only. The ideal 
plan as seen from our point of view 
in Forest Home would be to take 
the supply from the City Water 
Works and distribute the water di- 
rectly throughout the grounds in an 
adequate pipe system, thereby dis- 
pensing with costly and troublesome 
machinery and effecting a saving in 
money as the Milwaukee rate is only 
four and a half cents per hundred 
cubic feet. The supply from that 
source is practically unlimited but by 
reason of a lack and fluctuation of 
pressure, which at the maximum does 
not exceed thirty pounds and is on 
the average much lower, it cannot 
be used advantageously except when 
only a small quantity of water is re- 
quired for general purposes. 
For sprinkling the lawn we are 
obliged to pump the water, which is 
taken from two artesian wells and 
we find we can do the work most 
efficiently and economically by pump- 
ing directly into the water pipe sys- 
tem and maintaining a pressure of 
fifty pounds per square inch. Until 
this season steam was our motive 
power but we now use an electric 
driven direct connected centrifugal 
pump, which in my judgment where 
the electric current is available is 
the most convenient, efficient, and as 
we are situated, cheapest system of 
pumping water in use today. This 
type of pump is equally efficient for 
pumping from wells, streams, lakes, 
or reservoirs, or as a “booster” to 
draw from and increase the pressure 
of water from the city mains. 
The best method in my opinion to 
distribute water for sprinkling pur- 
poses is to so arrange a system of 
pipes ranging in size from one inch 
in diameter for short branches up- 
wards to mains of sufficient capacity 
to amply meet all requirements, these 
sizes being governed by conditions, 
due consideration being given to 
volume, rate of discharge and con- 
sequent friction. The pipes should 
be located and hose connections so 
distributed that all parts of the lawn 
may be sprinkled with a fifty foot 
length of three quarter inch hose. 
Such an ample system of pipes is eco- 
nomical in first cost as well as in 
operating and maintenance expenses, 
for let it be borne in mind that gal- 
vanized wrought iron pipe (and I 
would use no other except for mains 
of three inches and over in diameter, 
which should be cast iron) is now 
very cheap. An inch pipe costs about 
five and one quarter cents per foot 
and laying about five cents more, 
a total of ten cents if laid near the 
surface, as is preferable for several 
reasons, but it should be carefully 
graded so that it can be convenient- 
gpi 
tff- 
ly and thoroughly drained for the 
winter. A good hose costs from 
twelve to sixteen cents per foot and 
will last on an average three or four 
years, whereas galvanized pipe, ac- 
cording to my experience, will last 
at least twenty-five years. 
To facilitate watering lawn sprink- 
lers should be used, not those of the 
more or less complicated revolving 
type but a simple little stationary 
thing such as the so-called Cactus or 
Wizard type which costs about $1.60 
per dozen. Hand sprinkling should 
not be resorted to except in watering 
individual isolated lots. A man can 
without difficulty attend to and move 
around ten or twelve sprinklers in the 
same time he would water a propor- 
tionately smaller area with a hose 
by hand. It is perhaps needless to 
say that all hose connections on the 
lawn should be located below the 
surface of the ground. Further de- 
tails are perhaps unnecessary. That 
I believe you will find the best and 
most economical method of sprinkling 
or as the question says “irrigating 
the lawn.” 
Milwaukee James Currie, 
Supt. Forest Home Cem. 
CEMETERY NOTES 
The Evergreen Cemetery Company 
has been incorporated with $300,000 cap- 
ital, to promote a new cemetery in 
Louisville, Ky. The company recently 
purchased a tract of 240 acres six miles 
from the city in the Preston-street road 
from I. P. Barnard. 
Some nineteen monuments in Holy 
Assumption Catholic Cemetery, Cly- 
man, Wis., have been badly damaged, 
some of them beyond repair, by un- 
known vandals. 
A thorough reconstruction of the 
financial system in vogue at the Wal- 
tham Cemetery, Waltham, Mass., is un- 
der consideration by the finance com- 
mittee of the board of aldermen of that 
city. 
A plan to take the management of 
F'airview Cemetery, Joplin, Mo., out of 
the hands of its present management 
and turn it over to the care of the 
park committee of that city is contem- 
plated. It has been more or less neg- 
lected and the proposition to put it 
into better shape is arousing enthusiasm 
among those interested. 
The somewhat eccentric will of Adam 
W. Funk, a bachelor farmer of Belle- 
ville, 111., provides that $8,000 shall be 
placed in the hands of trustees and 
the proceeds applied to the perpetual 
care and beautifying of the Funk cem- 
etery in Freeburg township, a private, 
one-acre, burying ground. A $200 mon- 
ument for himself is also provided. Be- 
sides his real estate he is said to have 
left some $10,000 cash; and after deny- 
ing his brothers and sisters any share 
in his property he devises the remainder 
of his estate to Engelmann township 
for the betterment of the roads there. 
The St. Patrick’s Cemetery associa- 
tion has been organized among the mem- 
bers of St. Patrick’s Catholic church 
at Danville, 111., for the purpose of tak- 
ing over the management of St. Patrick’s 
cemetery, which has hitherto been un- 
der the direction of the parish priest, 
Father O’Reilly. The prime object of 
the St. Patrick’s Cemetery association 
was to relieve the priest of the addi- 
tional duties of looking after the cem- 
etery, and also to place it on a purely 
business basis. In following out this 
policy the association will raise the 
price of the lots in order to create a 
fund, with which to maintain the cem- 
etery. 
At a special election held in Carlin- 
