. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE 109 enough not to be in the way at plowing time. iVseending pipes come to the surface at intervals. In all three of these plans, faucets may be placed where desired for the attachment of garden hose. In the first two plans, the water may be thrown by the use of special nozzles directly from the water pipes without the use of hose. Ditches or flumes are sometimes used to convey the water. Fig. 61.—Overhead irri
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE 109 enough not to be in the way at plowing time. iVseending pipes come to the surface at intervals. In all three of these plans, faucets may be placed where desired for the attachment of garden hose. In the first two plans, the water may be thrown by the use of special nozzles directly from the water pipes without the use of hose. Ditches or flumes are sometimes used to convey the water. Fig. 61.—Overhead irrigation system for children's gardens of the National Gash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. The nozzles are three feet apart along each pipe. A small garden may have only one pipe through the center. (Photo from Children's Flower Mission, Cleveland.) to various points of the area to be irrigated. From there the water may be distributed in smaller ditches or furrows or if the area be flat a flooding method is sometimes followed (Fig. 62). The actual watering about the plants is by one of three ways: Flooding, seepage from furrows and small ditches, and surface sprays. In proportion to the amount of "water used, the spray methods are most wasteful. This is because so much of the water is lost by evaporation, and the surface 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 Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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