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power, every joint burst and there was 
trouble right away. A gentleman who 
has made and uses this pipe told me 
that though the weak places in his ce¬ 
ment pipe had broken, he had patched 
them until the pipe was all right. I 
began to find that there were weak 
places and fixed them up by this 
method. When I stopped making the 
pipe at any one joint, I set the ma¬ 
chine down in the ditch farther along 
and went on, leaving that gap. After¬ 
wards I put the machine on the ground 
and made some pipe for filling these 
gaps and sawed it into the proper 
lengths (you can pick up five or six 
or seven feet) and set it in the section. 
Then I set the right length into the 
gap and wrapped some wire loosely 
around the joint; then took some ce¬ 
ment well mixed and spread it around 
and in the wire completely. That 
joint will never break. Just wind some 
wire loosely around it and fill it in with 
cement, spreading it quite liberally, 
and it will answer every purpose. Any 
small wire will do; I generally use 
small, galvanized wire. 
We generally put in the hydrants 
the following morning after the ce¬ 
ment pipe is made. Scrape the top 
of the cement away so as to give a 
new surface. When you are running 
your irrigating plant and the hydrants 
break out, by using this wire plan, 
winding wire around again and again 
loosely and filling it up with cement, 
it will be tight and ready for use on 
the following day. 
I find this cement pipe very satis¬ 
factory. I have tried the McGowan 
nozzle. It has a little small top that 
screws down to regulate the amount 
of water. Sometimes it is screwed 
down too tight and sometimes too 
loose and you are apt to have trouble 
if you don't look after it pretty care¬ 
fully. Cement pipe will stand a good 
deal of pressure, but not as much as 
iron pipe. You have all heard the 
story of the man down at the Tampa 
Bay Hotel, who had a big head on 
him the morning after a festive even¬ 
ing. The manager took one of our 
finest Florida grapefruit and fixed it 
up with a little ice and sugar and a 
little French brandy and gave it to 
him. Pretty soon the man came down 
and asked for his bill and said, “I am 
going to New York to tell the boys, 
‘Eureka, I have found it.’ ” The Cac¬ 
tus sprinkler affected me very much 
the same way. When I saw it I felt 
like exclaiming, “Eureka, I have found 
it and must tell the boys." From 
a four-inch pipe I have seen it throw 
the water in a circle thirty-five feet in 
diameter, wetting it well in just a few 
minutes. It puts water on in the finest 
kind of spray. They are very simple 
and last a long time. There is only 
one that is any good for our irrigation, 
and that is No. io, one-inch size. It 
will put on lots of water and in fine 
shape and at low pressure. 
In the above system of iron pipe, the 
laterals are of two-inch pipe from a 
four-inch main. It waters about forty 
acres and costs about $3,000.00. To 
fix it up with cement pipe it would cost 
about one-third as much. The Chase 
& Co. system at Lake Butler, where 
there is an ample supply of water, is 
the cheapest plan there is, but you 
must have unlimited water. If your 
water supply is unlimited, you can 
take terra cotta pipe and the Mean’s 
pump and throw a world of water on 
