CONCLUSIONS

 Maximum drip irrigation use by mulched tomatoes was 0.3

 inches/day, however, maximum yield was produced with a maximum use

 of about 0.25 inches/day. Maximum sprinkler irrigation use was

 about 1.0 inch/day. Rainfall and sprinkler irrigation were about

 25% or less as effective as drip irrigation for mulched tomatoes.

 Maximum yields of tomatoes were obtained with total drip irrigation

 use of 15 to 20 inches for a 120-day growing season. Average daily

 pan evaporation for Exp-l, which was conducted during a dry year,

 was 0.17 inches for the first 50 days of growth and 0.25 inches for

 the last 70 days or a season total of 26 inches.



 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 Dr. S. M. Olson supplied plants and equipment for seed bed

preparation for Experiment-2. Audley Manning assisted in

collecting data from all experiments. Mike Bundy assisted with

experiments two and three. Special thanks to Jan Smith for typing

the manuscript.



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