Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-11-06

ColumnS relative 10 lrrlgatlng small
areas on the farm by means of pumps.
Generally wind power has been the
force used and advocated. 1t has been
taken for granted that any means of
supplying water by pumping meant
the supplying of it in sucn small guam.
titles at the time of pumping that 1t
would have to be stored in reservoirs
previous to being used, SO that sui.
ficient amount of water could be ap.
piled at one time to properly do the
work. 1t is recognized as a principle
that the "little-and-often" method of
watering will not do.
In the West this system has been
brought to some perfection, especially
in Western Kansas and Western Ne
braska. There windmill will fill
reservoir with enough water to irri-
gate about 15 acres of land, which, of
course, is not used for grain growing,
but for the raising of vegetables But
the cost Of constructing reservoir is
considerable, and the cost of erecting
a windmill tower Is also considerable.
So IL method could be found that
would make it possible to supply water
to the land in large enough stream to
irrigate it direct there would be a
considerable saving. This the Arizona
station has done. 1t has used an or
binary engine for lifting the water,
but has employed very large stream
of water for the purpose. From seven
to AZ acres of ground can thus be ir-
rigated in single day Of "a hours.
The use Of large stream of water
has great advantage over the use Of
small stream. The experiments are
to be continued at the Arizona station
and will doubtless bring to light many
things, especially the economy of US
ing certain kinds OF fuel. In all Of
our states there are times in the year
when an application of water would
save valuable crops. There are those
that persistently stick to the idea that
we should not irrigate IL we live in
the humid states. But IL a drouth
comes just before crop is ready to
harvest and ruins it. the result is the
same as If it had been present all the
time.
Hitherto 1t has been thought that
only garden truck could be irrigated,
the expense being too great for field
crops. But at the station mentioned it
was found that irrigation could be car
ried on at about 81 per acre and cover
the ground more than five inches deep
with water. At this rate any kind of a
crop could be irrigated to advantage.
There is evidently great future for
this kind Of enterprise. In some of
our billy states there are no end of
water powers going to waste, which
will doubtless some day be used as
has been indicated.
Ways Swine Get tuberculosis.
Occasionally barrow is found with
tuberculosis of the scrctum, says DR..
s. Stewart. 1t is not rare to find sow
with this disease in one or more of the
teats, usually one, sometimes two, and
In no other part Of the body, showing
that the infection was from virus
getting into that particular part.
There are other sources and ways of
infection, but those given are the
most common. When once the disease
Is introduced into the herd, then 1t
is readily propagated from the dis
eased to the healthy, and thus the in
fected animal becomes a source of
further distribution of the disease.
There is much interest to BE taken
in the channels of the Sody through
which these germs may find entrance
and the tissue liz which they may
propagate. Close observation shows
that ;nost CRIES are infected through
lie brochures of the throat. You re-
cal. what the tonsil is in your own
throat. Swine have a similar struc-
ture In their throat, and just beyond
these tonsils or in relation to them,
there are structures known as lymph
ganglia, or glands, or kernels. These
lymph ganglia are simply centers
along the course of little vessels which
lead from the tissues in all parts of
the body to the central blood stream,
and, next to the tonsilar disturbances,
the disease is found in these glands,
at the angle of the jaw, just inside. In
the government inspection these
glands are carefully examined, and 1t
Is surprising to note the largo num-
Der that are found to be diseased.
Finding 1t there calls for investigation
all over the body.