Identifier: californiafruits07wick (find matches)
Title: The California fruits and how to grow them;
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wickson, Edward James, 1848- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fruit culture
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal., Pacific rural press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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be counted at about 4 cubic feet and with themixture above would cover the first-named reservoir about 1^ inches. Thiswould make it tight. The supply pipe should come up from the bottom, sothat the lift would never be more than the height of the surface. Loss of Water by Seepage.—The great loss of water by seepageduring a long run has led to the cementing of ditches, and to theuse of miles of large wooden, concrete and iron pipe by the irri-gation companies of Southern California; also, where the slope israpid, paving ditches with rock has been resorted to. Similarefforts naturally suggest themselves to the user of a small watersupply to save his flow from loss. The lining of ditches to preventseepage is being tested by the California Experiment Station atBerkeley, and publication of results is being made.* Where lumberis cheap the use of a board flume is an available means of savingwater, when the soil is coarse and leachy. Bulletin 188 University of California Experiment Station.
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THE CURRENT WHEEL 209 Irrigation from Flowing Wells.—A considerable area of orchardis irrigated from flowing wells in different parts of the State.Nearly everywhere in the artesian districts there are local well-borers who have kept records of the strata traversed in their workand can estimate closely the cost of securing water by this method. Lifting Water from Flowing Ditch or Stream.—Where a streamhas a rapidity of two miles or more per hour, and a lift to a heightof six to sixteen feet will give head enough to distribute the waterover a considerable area, there is nothing cheaper than the currentwheel which is largely used in this State. The engraving gives anend view of such a wheel. Eight pairs of arms, carrying flatbuckets like those of a steamboat paddle-wheel, extend from a hubrotating on metal bearings. At either end or both ends of eachbucket are fixed wooden or tin water boxes which fill themselveson entering the water, and on being brought to the highest pointof rotat

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