Irrigation in the North Atlantic States

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No. 18. F. W. Kilbourne, of Middlesex County, irrigates 2 acres of truck from the ■ New Brunswick city waterworks at the rate of $1 per thousand cubic feet. From two to three crops are grown on the same ground, each crop usually receiving one irrigation and aU. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Buls. 36 and 87.
23 occasionally two. The furrow methotl of irrigation, with a hose, is emploj^ed, the rate of flow from the hose being about lOj gallons per minute. The furrows are 240 feet l
...ong and 3 feet apart, and it requires thirty minutes for the water to run through them, on the aver- age. It requires forty hours to irrigate 1 acre of ground, the cost for water being $3.30. The soil is a heavy loam 12 inches thick with a red shale gravel subsoil. In 1905 water did not cost over $25, and the total cost of pipe and hose was only $25.
Prizetaker onions yielded 900 bushels per acre. Three crops of lettuce of 50,000 plants per acre for each crop are usually grown on the same land, selling wholesale at from 2 to 6 cents a piece.


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