Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-08-31
MAKE FIELD bitches
commonly Done With Ordinary
Plow and CroWder.
usually Made Two to Four Feet Wide
on Top and Eight to Sixteen
inches Deep-canvss Dam
Used for Check.


Field bitches are comomnly made
In this country with the ordinary
plo" and some sort OF crowder
or with double moldboard blow or
lister. On land with considerable
grade the bitches should run across
the slope and all the soil thrown |
On The lower side. This can be done |
by putting additional wings on the |
plow to throw the soil farther out of
the ditch and by running one side
d the crowder flat against the upper
side OF the furrow and crowding all
the earth in one direction. On nearly
level land the excavated soil should
De throw out on both sides. writes w
W. hcl-aughlin In the Denver Field
ana Farm. This is done by blowing
out dead furrow or by blowing a
iurrow with double moldhOard pillow
and clearing this out and smoothing
the banks by hand with shovel or
by pushing the loose soil with
crowder
The crowder is V-shaped drag
made OF two by twelveinch planks.
ten or twelve feet long steel shod.
joined at one end and beveled to
make sharp cutting edge. The left
s:dL is hinged half way back so that
The width of the crowder Is adjust
able and the hitch Is made with a
clovis In a hole half way down the
90 h., L..
attached to the main brace to guide
the machine Two TO four burrows
are plowed and then the crowder is
used to push the soil out bitches
are usually made two to four feet wide
d top and eight 10 sixteen inches
deep. They must be partly above the
natural surface check in order that
the water may be run out over the
surface
Dams are placed In the bitches tC
hold the water up and run 1t ovel
the lower banks. Usually twice
through a ditch with the crowder will
put It In good condition and a mar
with a team can construct from on,
TO one and one-half miles OF such
bitches IN a day in sandy loan soil
often dams for turning the water from
field bitches are put in when thu
bitches are made. Sometimes the,
are made OF earth scraped from thu
bottom OF the ditch with a damme
and dumped into piles at the desired
intervals. Sometimes the earth 4
taken from the bottom OF the ditcl
Immediately below the dams an
when the dams are broken II is wash
cd lack into the places from whic
II was taken Manure is often used
being placed in piles in the ditch o
s alongside before irrigation begins.
T. The canvas dam Is. however. prot
5 ably the most common form OF chez
used for turning water out OF fell
y bitches. II is inexpensive. easil
made. and convenient to handle.
d consists simply OF rectangular piec
Of canvas long enough to reach fror
g side 10 side with one edge fastene
L 10 timber or pole. which is place
$ nUoss the ditch. As a rule. there ar
n no permanent structures in the tiel
n bitches In grain fields irrigated b
r flooding Gates are sometimes put
" the surplv bitches but often the watt
n IS held up in the supply ditch by ten
II pcrary dams and turned out throug
re cuts IN the lower bank. Water
run In one or more OF the field latera
le at n time. depending upon the size
the stream delivered to the irrigato
10 The usual stream run In a ditch
he about one second-foot. or forty TO fift
is inches. II water is delivered In
y stream OF two or three secondfeet tn
a stream should be divided among
er many laterals. II the land is In goo
be condition. one man can look after tv
or three laterals and to make the be
he use OF his time he should have
d. large stream as he can handle.
ut flooding for grain or irrigating
by meadow water Is turned into one
more laterals and allowed to flo
IN down TO the first dam. where II
n. held I'M and made TO overflow the 10
he or hank and flow over the field to {
be next lateral. when this section h
OF received enough water the dam
X broken and the stream flows down
the next dam. and the operation Is
rooted until the whole field is cover'
With ms large a stream as he
he handle one man can water ten
NJ. ,venty.flve acres in day of TWEEN
ST. four hours.