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J Vegetable Growing Under Irrigation i 
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."d or 00 cents per hour, which does not 
include labor of an engineer, or man to 
look after the pipes in the field. The 
depreciation is small, as it has been six 
years since the first overhead irrigation 
plant was established on our farm, and 
the pipes are in good repair. We use 
galvanized piping entirely.” 
Effect on Fertility. —Mr. Seabrook 
was asked if there is danger of the soil 
fertility being washed out. ‘'It soaks 
away but very little in my opinion,” he 
replied. “We have secured less than one- 
third crop where we have not irrigated. 
We have had no experience in grow¬ 
ing asparagus under irrigation. It is 
grown early in the season, and is 
not usually affected by drought, and my 
impression is that it would hardly pay 
to irrigate it. It would not pay to grow 
corn under the system. The quick-grow¬ 
ing crops, such ns beets, onions, lettuce, 
carrots, and crops that you can grow t\w 
and three by intercropping, and secure 
four crops, are those which it pays to 
irrigate. We have never tried our sys¬ 
tem to keep away the frost. We are 
using lime quite liberally on our land, 
and we make application of hydrated 
lime every three or four years.” w. .7. 
Draining Bog Land. 
I HAD read a great deal and heard a 
great deal of the gain in draining cer¬ 
tain sorts of land. It all sounded 
reasonable enough, and did not awaken 
any doubts or skepticism in my mind, 
but the little patch of wet, boggy ground 
that I had on my own place did not look 
very inviting when one thought of slosh¬ 
ing around in it, digging trenches in 
which to lay draining material. In addi¬ 
tion to that, I had no doubt at all about 
the land being so sour and so airtight 
that I could not see where desirable veg¬ 
etation was going to get a foothold, and 
indeed it would not if the draining had 
not been supplemented by other things. 
Cedar being abundant with us and 
drain tile costing good money, I decided 
on using cedar puncheon instead of pipe, 
though pipe would undoubtedly be better. 
“Puncheon,” by the way, is simply rough 
timber stuff, split out very much like 
broad, fiat fence rails. Grades were fig¬ 
ured out, trenches dug, and in the bot¬ 
toms of the trenches the puncheon laid in, 
in a manner to make certain of an open 
way—like a pipe—through which the 
water might run. On the puncheon small 
trash and tough bog grass clods were 
thrown and then the dirt put back. 
After two or three weeks of dry weath¬ 
er, when the water had pretty well 
drained out of the land, we plowed the 
piece as well as we could, where we could. 
Where plowing was not possible, grub¬ 
bing, spading, anything at all. was re¬ 
sorted to to let light and air and life into 
the soil. Then over it all was thrown a 
fair covering of loose manure, to add 
warmth and keep up the aeration. On 
top of this was thrown about an inch of 
coarse, gravelly soil. Then came a light 
scattering of other fertilizers and some 
lime. Then we hauled enough light, 
warm, sandy soil to make a covering over 
that. Result, I had a piece of ground 
that soon gave fairly sound footing, and 
got bettor every day. where previously 
there was simply a bog and bulrushes and 
water holes where one could not cross 
even in dry midsummer. 
Soon as possible the piece was thor¬ 
oughly harrowed; harrowed as deeply as 
possible. When the weather was settled 
and the time right, I put in two patches 
of sweet corn, a small field of cabbages 
and some other things. Better corn I 
never had before, anywhere. It was a 
reclamation indeed ; the converting of an 
absolute waste and eyesore into a fine 
piece of ground. I did not use potash 
enough, nor phosphoric enough, the re¬ 
sult being that many of the corn ears 
did not fill out as well as they should. 
Some were magnificent specimens, though. 
There was a good deal of work about it, 
but the help and I did the reclaiming 
work at odd times, and it will not have 
to be done again—except probably to put 
in pipe after some years, and there is the 
finest piece of truck and corn ground on 
the place. ROBERT s. doubleday. 
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