. Citrus fruits;. Citrus fruit industry; Citrus fruit industry. Irrigation 199 promise of success. Mr. David Overholtzer of Covina is irrigating nine acres of twenty-two-year-old Valencia oranges by this method with apparent success. He lifts his water 147 feet or more from a well in the orchard with a Pomona deep well pump and a 40 H. P. gas engine. A centrifugal pump keeps the pressure on the line at about forty pounds. The supply pipes run down the center. pIG 59 — Overhead irrigation system in old orange orchard near Covina, California. of the orchard and from them radiate the delivery pip
. Citrus fruits;. Citrus fruit industry; Citrus fruit industry. Irrigation 199 promise of success. Mr. David Overholtzer of Covina is irrigating nine acres of twenty-two-year-old Valencia oranges by this method with apparent success. He lifts his water 147 feet or more from a well in the orchard with a Pomona deep well pump and a 40 H. P. gas engine. A centrifugal pump keeps the pressure on the line at about forty pounds. The supply pipes run down the center. pIG 59 — Overhead irrigation system in old orange orchard near Covina, California. of the orchard and from them radiate the delivery pipes, one over every other middle at an elevation of 16 feet. The patent brass nozzles, yVo mcn diameter, are placed four feet apart, and the streams of water are thrown laterally about twenty feet. The entire orchard is irri- gated at once and the delivery pipes are all rotated from one windlass in the pump-house. The equivalent of one inch of rain is applied in about twelve 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 Coit, John Eliot, 1880- [from old catalog]. New York, The Macmillan company
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