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i» Agrícola" in Vu ¿Tilo.'[
To water growing croj^'goMani..
fruit trees it is generally T
land must be saturated to bt *J't
the crop. This I do not think1unroo<r ku. j* ".
maintain that one gallon of watery-HJf 4?B) applied is equal to three times the', ofb,sJPi¡¿Í0 thiown on anyhow. To raise water E. W ,j.*re
gation, on a small scale, horse po:- \ y¿v
require the least outlay, whether rais .,r _ IÇ^,-, 'j*
a creek orwell. To utilise wind powf. 2*1 p y*Q necessitate an expensive tank, to ' ^»rt.j. '"J"" supply when wanted; at the ti*- e ^ "-'"o3" occasion to water our crop8Är_-If'ur, Una a not over busy, so that a littl OU 1 "üg- TÄ" c
will not be much felt. Asv BuICK. i ter hi,i our water pumped to the*AT '-R, jf Su of our paddock, our next Crr-pin'n i ,* nr«^
distribute it. But how? co^V^ fteco?
and it rubs all the more 1" , /
enormous quantity that is B°TON xton>, '¡¡J*/ .
necessary. One ounce of prat ' '^cv
pound of theory, and I propá. i " min
former, gained by watering lpreceived ", : plants during a very dry tr^yo sell bj Ï^TT'' having had a crop just taken -.J1011 ao Ea , j.,,,
such good condition as if it !_» J JJ"'»
and it received three plo,E8aa frra"? ."' jU
necessary barro wings to bri . "étions
to receive the plants withou tÄtainef * »T, falling during these operatif ¿land, r
rows of this piece wore rea v J, AND "
nected with some that ha»'.'""8' 'sd and
^under'more favourable cond^ * -- ,0ns. Mt Vii above grou4."ft..«--i had roc '£__.__** ALOGÜ« viitie* UV desirable Bssar¿^ JT' _d un.
tbJf-te pHÄ- WeA^mî'et?W «vehi
being cultiva, and n^e early piI .*. influe being done, fßBfiTwÄg one oj ' ^.-^ingf avoid turning in^íüRniddlo of ti 1tty method of watering was very «<i eneô by the end of thryee days, say_. /Uf AJT^' a plants were safe,/tain or no rai lt-*-Axiiat w done as follows .-4-Three oue-ht im,s J. P having in it a hogshead with «OCÍATE Pr two boys at a Well 17ft. deep r""->r_, ,' \g£ two boys as djavers, four boy^Sf the >ir and fourbp^Wxposing a port,0'2;XJ_7(, '°V on which^rout a quart of W;HI, / f:_lpe and tbeMxposed portion of t a/jf \JJo is p up with fine earth to preven- fl,y jjAy / vldeJ oration. The result was w Jf | i ^.
the late planting was so We receif /[*$(,{, whilst other pieces planted^1.!h to Bel' ¡T^ pos without water remained - '^
for double the time. The J-WH2K
aka labour) twelve boys *¡ Eft»
each per day is 72s, ip,H-4t_
nothing very ruinous ; . ; n. r g M poses we want a better i J,* >. ,ng scribed, to enable us to |an]£ned
quantity to a growing ci ia;cc». P' laid under ground at stf9íle_¡n be expensive, and alto ,6USrty.
means of the small caDi'tjj1 <d its cial benefit I amjgIIi8" Iat{dt_, marks, knowing . "fcn--. lV
dry weather h__. ^on * ,",_. -
and if he ÏT H 3 to?- *"&-< paddock yields "rfSgt T** crop as his r .aBfl, . JA ti
whose extens ""?. .> to ttfld t^o th. such undertaPf __, _ . largeSa.s
tion of-seein, 0N .olemnly tnB'W V» crops, thus as-g-, ' eota$Wç
nature. A gr_U4 C5 J. 8aid »-tt, ». I wa,
late on the m<¡ ifîTH Aüío-the> V^<>ter..?Ia «gatum, but nonè\n .^M inT*,!0;. *bb« Queensland. Suppose &o "j ^ "^jPpla > on a small scale, extending our operatior or otherwise as our faith increases or da creases. To send water along the rows c;
young plants to completely saturate tier' ground that has been properly cultivated wi» require a large body of water, even supposiib the land to have an even surface to admit i, such a thing, and then I think the ill effec:
of the water on clay soils will be considera. % and will require immediate attention to pro vent the surface from being baked and sourea On an acre of cane planted 5ft. to 5ft. Gin. bat tween the rows, and a stool every 3ft. in till row, wo have, say, 2610 stools, and to gi_
each stool one gallon wo should have fla'C' 'j" convey 112 tons of water per acre-a litti" -Í0 over six ship's tanks ; and supposing wehariiF u
a forty-acre paddock, 20 chains by 20, with 8d,'e?rk I well on the middle of the upper headlandM;. e"j then with 30 chains of portable tramway vm j68r can command the whole of it, or the adjoif."6 ing 40 acres, and with six ship's tanks, thro sent out at a time filled with water, 12(!r gallons-a little over 5¿ tons, includinr/ weight of tanks. This lot, to be emptied hu
a hose connected at the bottom of the tank«.' would give a spread of, say, one chain on either side ; thus four acres could be watered for every removal of the ra'1 -the threa tanks being filled whilst the °xa wn
emptied. This plan w^g^ .¿_gjS_
or boys watering, p*- "-"fïî« T°HM pumping. The -3 0N TH3oV"
horse FOB,
a »-» on v , , j _ne
" ?> . "" '.~i.mil- 1
-tiit.,BLG -\0\ _«B & CO. bi> goods, very s' the ordinary r»'"'
7flBn£ST SYDNEY
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