Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Watering a Crop With an Engine. [ARTICLE]

Watering a Crop With an Engine.

Fortunate in having his farm intersected by one of the arterial drains of the district, Mr. Young, of Swiueshead Abbey Farm, in the neighborhood of Boston, England, determined to utilize the water thus provided, and arranged with Messrs. Merry weather & Son, Limited, to send down one of their most powerful fire engines. With this engine about eighty tons of water per hour have been pumped onto crops of mangold seed and potatoes, and land is now being drenched preparatory to cauliflower planting. Allowing for stoppages necessary for moving the 200 yards of hose from land to land and other incidentals, from three to five acres of laud are covered with 120 tons of water per acre per day. Hundreds of farmers have witnessed the operation, and from each and all the wish has been fervent that they had the water and engine too. To the oft-re peated remark that the thing must be costly, Mr. Young’s reply is: “Costly it may be, but not one-tenth part so costly as the drouth.”—[New York Witness.

A wail of distress is heard throughout Switzerland, aod the cause of it is that there are so few Americans traveling in the land of Tell this year, while the English also are very scarce.