
IRRIGATION IN CONNECTICUT. 227 
IRRIGATION ON THE FARM OF &. CG, WARNER, NORTH HAVEN. 
Mr. Warner began his irrigation operations about ten years 
ago, and has used the water mainly for strawberries and rasp- 
berries. The cultivated fields are so located that part of them 
may be watered by flowage from a pond supplied by springs 
and a small stream. Others are on high ground and may be 
watered from tanks located on a hill near by. A ram is used 
for filling these tanks, the source of the water being numerous 
small springs, the water of which, having been conveyed to a 
common point, makes a pond of about half an acre in area. A 
fall of six feet is obtained from the pond tothe ram, and the 
water is lifted sixty feet in height, a distance of 600 feet to 
the tanks. As this system is essentially the same as that on 
the farm of Mr. Eddy, which is fully described further on, no 
detailed description is necessary. "The water is mainly used 
directly from pipes, being sprinkled on the crops by means of 
hose. 
On the west side of Mr. Warner’s farm a small stream flows 
through a pasture, and by building small earth dams and 
ditches, the water is conveyed into a pond located a few feet 
higher than one of the strawberry fields. The fall along the 
rows of strawberries is very slight most of the distance, and 
the water is conducted across the rows near one end and turned 
down the rows as needed. At one point in the field there is a 
knoll so high that the water cannot be gotten on toa small 
area, but it is conducted around the knoll and then flows 
readily along the rows again, and over the rest of the field. 
Although no attempt was made to estimate the differences in 
yield, the crop obtained from this knoll was very much 
smaller, and the fruit of much poorer quality than over the 
rest of the field. The plants also were so much injured by the 
effects of the drouth that when seen in September they pre- 
sented a striking contrast to the plants only a few feet away 
where the water had been used. ‘The yield on this knoll was 
estimated to be only one-third as much as it was over the rest 
of the field, and Mr. Warner thinks that the crop on the whole 
field was double what it would have been had no artificial 
watering been done. The entire expense represented only a 
few days’ work with men and teams, probably costing less 
than $25, when estimated at market rates of labor. So great | 
