. The lure of the land . The well drillers drop weight made an excellent roller 37 At last the tank arrived and was erected; then another delaywhile tracers again hunted pump pulleys that had never left thefactory. It has become a mercantile custom to saddle delay on trans-portation companies. One grand and never-to-be-forgotten day the engine started andpumped the 5,000 gallon tank full in six hours. Hurrah, no more cart-ing of water, we need not again think twice before taking a drink orwashing hands for fear the supply would give out!. The irrigation trunk line and standards The irrigation
. The lure of the land . The well drillers drop weight made an excellent roller 37 At last the tank arrived and was erected; then another delaywhile tracers again hunted pump pulleys that had never left thefactory. It has become a mercantile custom to saddle delay on trans-portation companies. One grand and never-to-be-forgotten day the engine started andpumped the 5,000 gallon tank full in six hours. Hurrah, no more cart-ing of water, we need not again think twice before taking a drink orwashing hands for fear the supply would give out!. The irrigation trunk line and standards The irrigation system had been decided upon. Simple in the ex-treme, it consisted of a pipe running from the tower directly souththrough the chicken yard to the seed bed. By the chicken house, ittook a right angle, running west the length of the 18 acres, again northto the northwestern corner, where the dairymans cottage would ulti-mately be. A second pipe was run across the front lawn to the these pipes were laid three feet deep, the work being done bythe Senior Partner and the Italians, with occasional help from the well-driller. About every 100 feet of this pipe length, a standard wasinserted with a stop-cock at the top; these were for attaching hose, 38 for the system called only for a length of hose with lawn sprinklerattached. Our idea, proven to our own satisfaction in our own gardenwork, is that plants want their water in natures way, from above,and that it can be applied when the sun is shining just as well as not,provided you
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