Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20

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 we'll The
| field was laid off in seven plats of mar
row beds running from the highest TO the
| lowest side, and having shallow bitches
| (mere furrowsl 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 70 flow down its bitches
through, say Monday and Monday night
This efectualiy watered plat No. |. Tues
day morning the hose was moved 10 plat
No. J, and the water allowed 10 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. 3, and so on in regular routine I'M
Ill irrigating No was the work of Sunday
and Sunday nigh. BY this time plat No.
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 il was
kept up throughout the season
~ inf hot ba
was magnificent. Crops tapping upon each
other We're hOuriShing continuously from
the latest killing frost in early spring 10 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 noe TO
lift out such clods rs might have fallen into
the furrow, made everything ready ana all
right for the water.
The crops cultivated on this plan were
mainly vegetables, though 4 soad deal was
done in grapes. The plan maie grape vines
appear TO be doing their level best to turn
themselves All mo lful!. ne 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 were grown here and there on 3
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 10 waste water ample in quantity
for irrigating AZ 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 devoured 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 Il
dozen or more acres. and TO get it with a
degree of certainty that can have no varia-
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