. Bulletin. Agricultural experiment stations -- United States; Agriculture -- United States. 26 at tlie pump house into a wooden tank with a capacity of 2,000 gallons. The tank can be lilled in thirty minutes. The cost of the tank was $40 and of the supporting frame $25. The plant consumes 3^ gallons of gasoline, at 13i cents per gallon, in a ten hours' run. The water flows back through 300 feet of the supply pipe and then through 800 feet of 2-inch pipe to the land. This 2-inch pipe has an outlet every 22 feet, to which a hose can he connected for sup- plying a movable pipe with water. The so
. Bulletin. Agricultural experiment stations -- United States; Agriculture -- United States. 26 at tlie pump house into a wooden tank with a capacity of 2,000 gallons. The tank can be lilled in thirty minutes. The cost of the tank was $40 and of the supporting frame $25. The plant consumes 3^ gallons of gasoline, at 13i cents per gallon, in a ten hours' run. The water flows back through 300 feet of the supply pipe and then through 800 feet of 2-inch pipe to the land. This 2-inch pipe has an outlet every 22 feet, to which a hose can he connected for sup- plying a movable pipe with water. The soil is a light sandy loam 8 inches deep, with a clay and graA^el subsoil. The plant will usually irrigate 1 acre in two days' run, or twenty hours. The ground is irrigated by sprinkling from several water. Fig. 2.—Carrier for pipt" anil sprinklers. witches set 10 feet apart on a movable length of 2-inch pipe, which is mounted every 20 feet on 2-wheeled carriages. Eleven water witches are mounted on 100 feet of pipe supported by four carriages, as shown in figure 2, and will irrigate, without moving, a space 110 feet by 10 feet. Normally the water witches are run twenty minutes in the same place, but when necessary they are run for as long as an hour. Being mounted on wheels, the apparatus may be easil}^ moved. In the driest seasons it has never been necessary to give the ground more than three thorough irrigations. The value of the yield from an acre of celery is $1,200; unirrigated celery in 1903 was a total failure. In 1904 the crop from If acres of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Office of Experiment Stations. Washington : G. P. O.
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