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Excerpt from Irrigation and Drainage Investigations of the Office of Experiment Stations, U. S: Dept, of Agriculture The rainfall over one-third of the United States is so scanty that irrigation is a necessity to the profitable growth of agricultural crops. In other sections of the country there is an area equal in size to all New England, with Indiana added, which is so wet that crops can not be'grown at all, and where settlement and cultivation must be post poned until the land has been (liked and drained. In the fifteen States and Territories of the arid region irrigation is the fundamental agricultural problem, because the very existence of civilized life depends in large measure on the ability to use rivers for this purpose. In these States the production of a cheap and abundant home food supply, made possible by irrigation, has increased the comfort and lessened the cost of living, and contributed in a greater degree than any other Single cause to their continued' growth and' prosperity. By it desert wastes have been transformed into the most productive, healthful, and beautiful habitations of man to be found on this continent. The cities of Denver, Salt Lake, Los Angeles, and many others of lesser note are as much the creation of irrigation as the orchards and farms which surround them, and all depend for existence upon water and the institutions which govern its ownership and use. 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.

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