228 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
were the benefits derived from this small effort that Mr. Warner 
at once set about making plans to enlarge his system; and 
the past fall (1895), he has built a large storage pond, a little 
higher up the stream, where he expects to have storage 
capacity and water sufficient for four or five acres, all of which 
can be watered by direct flowage. 
Mr. Warner has obtained very beneficial results from irriga- 
tion on raspberries. He has also used it to advantage upon 
peach trees in times of severe drouth during the fruiting season. 
IRRIGATION ON THE FARM OF HALE BROS., SOUTH 
GLASTONBURY. 
The Hale Bros., of South Glastonbury, extensive growers 
of fruit and nursery stock, have long felt the importance of 
irrigation in their business, and have been for some time ma- 
turing plans for utilizing a supply of water near their farm. 
They have been delayed in getting unrestricted legal rights 
to the water, but during the fall of 1895 were able to obtain 
control of the necessary supply, and have been laying out one 
of the largest, if not the largest, system of irrigation to be 
found in this State. 
A small brook, which has never been known to go dry, has 
been dammed, and thus a reservoir formed. ‘The source of 
the water is about 5,000 feet distant from the fields to be irri- 
gated, and the fall about roo feet. Heavy cast-iron pipe six 
inches in diameter, jointed together with lead, are used for 360 
feet from the reservoir, and then a 4-inch pipe for 1,900 feet, 
or until a fall of fifty feet is obtained, after which the size of 
the pipe is reduced to three inches. ‘The pipe is carried along 
the top of the ridges of the farm, and at points about 200 feet 
apart hydrants are placed, so that the water can be taken from 
the main pipe and used for surface flowage or for sprinkling, 
It is believed that there is sufficient water to thoroughly irri- 
gate from forty-five to fifty acres of land, mainly by surface 
irrigation. ‘The contour of the land and the character of the 
soil are such that water can be distributed between the rows of 
plants and trees, so as to give a very even distribution. 
The Hale Bros. propose to use the water on small fruits, and 
ultimately on peaches. Mr. J.H. Hale is thoroughly convinced 
that the use of water on peach trees will prove profitable during 
