Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-16

sian wells. so simple that we want our own
| people TO hear about it. The little field
specially described by him contained only
| four acres lying on gentle slope or decline
all one way. About midway on the highest
| side of the field was an artesian well. The
field was laid OFF in seven plats of mar
row beds running from the highest TO the
| lowest side. and having shallow bitches
| Cmere furrows) between them. For con-
| venience we will number these plats from
| one to seven. 4 common rubber hose long
| enough to reach from the well to either
corner Of the field, along the highest side.
was employed. And now for the method of
applying the water:
The crops having been planted and every
thing put in order. the hose was dragged 10
the head of plat No. /, and all the water of
the well allowed to flow down its bitches
through, say Monday and Monday night.
This effectually watered plat No. /. Tues
day morning the hose was moved TO plat
No ,, and the water allowed to flow down
the bitches of that plat through Tuesday
and Tuesday night. Wednesday morning
found the water flowing in at the head of
plat No. g. and so on in regular routine I'M
til irrigating No. was the work OF Sunday
and Sunday nigh. BY this time plat No. l
was again in need of water, so the hose was
dragged to the original starting point, and
the same routine gone over from day 10 day
as in the first instance, and thus 1t was
kept up throughout the season.
Our informant assures US that the effect
was magnificent. Crops tapping upon each
other were fiourishing continuously from
the latest killing frost in early spring to the
earliest killing frost in late fall.
The arrangement interfered not at all
with regular culture, he said If, in work
ing over the land, the narrow bitches be
tween the beds We're broken up, a turn plow
passed through them each way, the last
thing after working, followed with hoe to
lift out such clods as might have fallen into
the furrow, made everything ready and ali
right for the water.
The crops cultivated on this plan were
mainly vegetables, though good deal was
done in grapes The plan made grape vines
appear to be doing their level best TO turn
themselves all into fruit. The tree fruits
were not much cultivated on these small
fields, owing to the fact that vegetables,
giving three crops in the season, were more
profitable With tree fruits but one crop
in the season could be expected. Some tree
fruits We're grown here and there on
limited scale, however, such as peaches,
apples and pears. and all were giving the
fullest satisfaction.
There are now in the great artesian areas
of Texas hosts of wells put down for do
nestle purposes, from which is regularly
running to waste water ample in quantity
for irrigating at least four acres of land on
this New Mexican plan. Such waste is just
about as bad as pitching ones bread and
meat out at the window to be deyoured by
starry dogs. The owners of these wells often
cultivate considerable acreages of land on
the old plan, when this waste of water if
properly applied would enable them to get
more clear profit from four acres of land
probably, than they are now getting from a
dozen or more acres, and to get il with a
degree of certainty that can have no varia