The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-13
IRRIGATION PAYS AT
 TUSKEGEE SCHOOL
General Yield Over Thrice as Much as Under Ordi-
 nary Conditions

Tuskegee, August 12-lSpecldi.)- ne Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute of which Booker T. Washington is prin- cipal. was the first uf the scientific schools of the south to install an over head irrigation plant. The report of the read of the truck farming division under which the system has been operated was made a few days ago to the principal. and furnishes an idea of the possibility of gardening in the Alabama climate, and probably throughout the south.
 The irrigation covers an acre well up on the school farm. For purposes of ex- perimentation an acre was thought to be
 sufficient Part of the land was put
 under irrigation last year and part the
 beginning of the present summer, so
 that comparative value of the eSperi- ment may be appreciated.
 Planted in the acre snap beans,
 squash. pepper, cabbage, turnips, toma-
 toes and lima beans.
 The general yield sf the irrigated acre. according to the report, equals an acreage of from three to five acres under ordinary conditions and the results have been uniformly successful
 The report shows that 3s days after planting six rows of snap beans made a yield of 106 bushels, that were mar keted at SS.2O; 26 days after planting F | dozen squash were gathered daily and many of them were more than 30 inches | in circumference.
 | Cabbage transpanted rn May gave a uniformly full head in July, while mar | ketable turnips have been gathered all summer.
 The yield in tomatoes has been mar
 keted both in abundance and size. the single tomato showing under irrigation l an average gain in weight of one pound | The most prolific vegetable under irri- | gation is the lima bean, the yield of which | has been 250 per cent above the avera ge | gathering.
 | All during the spring and midsummer rouths, so the Tuslxegee institute reports | it's irrigated acre showed no i'll effects of this spell. TuslSegee is preparing to
 put additional acreage under irrigation.
 -~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~ 1 provide or to prepare for providing for currency absolutely safe and elastic which, if issued. would add one-third to | the per capita of money in the United | States. In addition to that, the clearing | house associations were calling upon the titnlenQouS power Wnlcn turks Tn then organizations so that the resources of the
 banks could be adequately mobilized. The great foreign exchange experts of the United States within two or three days | worked out the answer to a new problem whereby there is control of foreign ex- | change, and the answer will esta blish a | new precendent
 Some Other Questions | There were other questions not of i'm | mediate pressing importance, although ot vast interest. The answers to these, il l adequate, would show the way by whicl
 the enforced embargo upon grain ant l other American products would be re | moved These questions to some exten
 depended for their answers upon the man | ner in which the government and tho l American bankers constructed the nasty l although complete. defenses against at | tacks upon our financial markets.
 | There came to New York deports iron
 other parts of the country indicating tha ! T anufacturers were meeting the new sit
 uation promptly. It was said upon goot
 authority that in New England the sho, manufacturing industry, which had beei | somewhat depressed, was meeting tn, 1 crisis with extraordinary vigor. Ther, | came from central New York reports tha certain chemical factories which had beer running on half or one-quarter time Wer, | speedily to run on full time, possibly over l time Certain mining activities, especiall, the mines which furnish material iron which acids are made, in the course of | few days, were running on full time. Ant so from many parts of the United State there came reports of renewed activit, and industry This would have been i'm | possible had it not been for the 1nanne
 in which the government and the bankers
 in an incredibly short time found way
 and means for perfecting our none, markets and providing abundant fund l so that. industry of all kinds could b. l free from apprehension.