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Excerpt from Practical Irrigation and Pumping: Water Requirements, Methods of Irrigation and Analyses of Cost and Profit
To people living anywhere on the American continent west of the hundredth meridian, the practice of irrigation as a fundamental necessity in the production of crops is SO common a matter and so thoroughly a part of their daily observation and experience, that they scarcely appreciate the viewpoint of the farmer of the humid regions, who stands more or less aghast at the idea of spending a large sum per acre to secure for the growth of the most common crops that moisture which under his conditions, nature itself provides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
