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inch of water on 1 acre is 27,152 gallons. A pump that delivers this
much water in a week of continuous operation is pumping about 160
gallons an hour. If watering were continuous all of the time and the
pump did not have to furnish water for any other purpose, a 160-gallonper-hour
pump could therefore water an acre in a week. However, since
few people will begin watering the garden as soon as it stops raining and
our usual water-system pumps must furnish water for other farm and
household needs, it is seldom practical to water the garden for 24 hours
of the day or for 7 days a week.
If you wait for 3 or 4 days after a soaking rain before starting to water,
the entire garden will have to be covered in 3 or 4 days' time or some
parts of it will become too dry. Also, because of other water needs,
you may be able to use the pump for garden watering only at night.
This means that you may have to cover the whole garden in 24 to 30
hours of pumping time. The following table shows how much garden
can be watered by different size pumps if the equivalent of 1 inch of water
is put over the whole area in 24 hours of pumping.
Capcit f p-p Sirf E nmS
(ix S pUme mW) (N Mw)
m 250 0.22
300 .26
350 .31
400 .35
450 .40
Approximate size 500 .4
of gardens that 550 .49
can be watered in J 600 .53
24 hours of pump- 650 .58
ing by different 700 62
capacity pumps 800 .71
900 .80
1,000 .88
1,100 .97
1,200 1.06
1,300 1.15
1,400 1.24
1,500 1.33
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Arnold, Earl L. (Earl Lee), 1907-. Using electricity to water your garden., book, 1952; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3378/m1/7/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.