Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-12-06
ALFALFA--IR
Two Subjects of Absorbing
Interest.
COburnE Symposium an Alfalfa a Fitting
Successor Of His Late Whcnt Feeding
RepnTt--some Instancrs Of Rcmarls-
able Succcss In Irrigation.
Irrigation Successes.

In the State Irrigation convention at
Hutchinson papers were read on results of
practical irrigation, among them the follow.
ing appeared;
w. ". Foster Of Meade, reNd n paper on
profits of Irrigation in Meade County"
which was attentvey listened to- He NAM
tanned that irrigation is highly profitable
where water il available within reasonable
depth. There are 1850 successful irrigation
plants in Meade, tho supply being from arte.
sian or drive wells. Mr.. Foster presented
facts and figures showing profits Of from $50
10 $40 an acre.
n. r. Moses, Of Great Bend, mndo state
ment az to what Mr.. Ford has done by irr.
CATION. According TO Mr.. Moses, Mr.. Ford
farmod in Barton county, without water, for
nine years, and found himself getting deeper
and deeper in debt, He weared of this and
built himself a homemade windmill. He
began to irrigate, gradually increasing his
watered area. Now ho IL prosperous, out of
debt and surrounded by all the comforts q
life. $50 much for irrigation in Barton
county"
Benjamin y. Smith of Lawrence, in n
paper entitled Strawberries by Irrigation"
told how by introducing water from the city
water works during the rpening season to
his two acre berry patch he increased his
crop from an estimated 10 crates to DDS
crates, netting S20J.2O, which he credits TO
his irrigation scheme. MIR. Smith used 700
feet OF iron pipe laid on top OF the ground
with stop cocks established at every hun
dred feet Seventeen Thousand gallons of
water was applied to tho patch at the frat
application and week later 10000 gallons
constituted n second application, The mp.
plication was made at night, taking twenty.
four hours for each application. The total
cost OF the experiment was S60,O and tho
success was such to warrant Mr. Smith in
laying his plans to irrigate in tho same
manner his forty acre berry patch one mile
from Lawrence.
y. ID, Smith, in the course of n paper on
"Protts Of Irrigation in Edwards County"
used two examples TO illustrate how much
can be done by irrigation under unfayor-
able circumstance, The first was Of j. M,
Cramblett. who lives twenty miles south of
KinSley. His plant consists Of n 3-inch
cylindrical pump and direct stroke wind
mill. The lit il twenty. eight feet With
this plant he pumped water for 100 head of
stock and for irrlgating half acre OF very
sandy land. The actual work of irrigation
was done by n girl ~ yeurs old, The yield
from this acre Wns: Tomatoes. 100 bushels,
worth $40; cabbage, 5000 pounds, worth
Sl00 and lettuce. onions, parsnips, beets
and other vegetables Sufficient to sup.
ply the entire neighborhood. The yield of
cabbage on measured area was at the rate
of 500 worth per mere None weighed less
than seven pounds Next year Mr., Cramb-
lett expects to irrigate an nero with the
same plant. The other example was the ex-
perienco of V. d. Billings, living mile
north Of Kinsley. With an S-inch cylinder
pump driven by 12-ioot mill, he irrigated
an ere and quarter, from which he sold
$500 worth of potatoes and 500 worth Of
cabbage, besides furnishing nm abundant
supply for his family. The cost of his plant
was $50.