HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1912 
243 
The Naturalizing of a City Man 
(Continued from page 221) 
The Squire was, of course, tremen¬ 
dously interested. His faith in Mantell’s 
latest scheme broke down, however, when 
the nozzles finally came, and he saw the 
size of the holes. 
“Water an acre of ground through 
those pin-pricks? Never — never in the 
world! They’ve soaked you this time, 
Harry, all right. It’s too bad.” But he 
hung around while the unions were being 
fitted and the nozzles inserted in the holes. 
Robert and Helen went down to start 
the pump, and for a few anxious moments 
Mantell stood at the end of the line, wait¬ 
ing for the water. It arrived and the one 
hundred tiny columns mounted into the 
air and broke into a fine pattering shower 
over the long strip of thirsty leaves and 
dusty soil. Rain, rain at last! 
The Mantell Company broke into a 
hearty cheer. 
“Well, I’ll be darned,” said the Squire. 
“What are we cornin’ to next? It may 
rain on the just and the unjust all right, 
but I guess the time’s come when it isn’t 
going to rain the same for the hustlers 
and the moss-backs. I take — I take off 
my hat to you, Harry.” 
Mantell went to bed that night, after 
watching his rain machine for a while in 
the moonlight (Robert and Raffles having 
volunteered to stay up and attend to the 
occasional turning of the pipe, so that they 
could shift it onto the other half of the 
field the next morning) with a feeling of 
great relief and satisfaction. The great¬ 
est problem of his new business had been 
satisfactorily solved. Never again, for 
his most important crops, would he have 
to depend on the clouds for that most vital 
of all requirements, water. 
The fall passed quickly. Showers came 
in time to be of some use to the field crops 
of corn and potatoes, but no real good 
soaking rains. And the new irrigation 
system more than paid for itself in saving 
the crops of onions and celery, both of 
which sprang into new life after the first 
soaking they received. 
The potatoes that they had planted to 
try out several varieties side bv side did 
not offer any very conclusive evidence at 
the close of the season, it had been so dry; 
but the field crop from the new sort that 
Mantell had grown for seed on the new 
quarter acre lot was evidently ahead of 
anything else they had, and also carried 
away first prize at the local fair. So they 
decided to keep these for their entire field 
crop next year, and about fifty bushels 
were especially selected for seed, well 
cured, and carefully stored away in the 
innermost part of the cellar. Their early 
potatoes he did not consider good enough 
for seed, so he sent away for five barrels 
for himself and the Squire, knowing that 
they would be much cheaper then than in 
the spring, and also because he wanted to 
be sure of having them in time for start¬ 
ing in the greenhouse. 
In the careful record he had kept of the 
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