Irrigation (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles D. Poston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330499298 ISBN 13 : 9781330499290

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Irrigation

Pruning per acre Irrigating twice Plowing vineyard twice Cultivating twice Hoeing twice at 50 cents.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Egypt before the pyramids were erected. It has fed the millions of Asia since the creation of the world. It nurtured Rome into existence, and was practiced in America before Columbus discovered theN ew World, and yet the people of the United States east of theM ississippi river know but little about it and care less. The Moors introduced irrigation intoS pain, and theS paniards imported an imperfect system of irrigation into Mexico, Texas, California, etc. The Valley of theN ile has yielded its fruitful abundance from irrigated lands for countless ages, and Cato wrote learnedly advocating its introduction into I taly; but the greatest achievement of modern times has been the improvement of the system of irrigation in theE astI ndies, by theB ritish Government of I ndia. Irrigation in theE astI ndies antedates all history; the Great Mogul gave it a grand impetus during the magnificence of his reign. When theB ritish Government (after theS epoy mutiny) took over the control of more than two hundred and fifty millions of subjects in I ndia, the first duty of Statesmanship was to provide labor and food for the people, and this has been accomplished by the extension of a system of irrigating canals unequalled in the world. Famine in India is rendered impossible, as long as the Himalayas give their melted snows to fructify the Indian valleys. The Ganges Canal, with its branches, is three thousand five hundred miles long. A mong other duties in the service of the Government of the United States, it was a pleasure, nearly twenty years ago, to investigate and report upon the system of irrigation throughout ASIA; and in this service I learned much in Japan, China, I ndia, Persia, A rabia andE gypt; and subsequently observed much on the subject in Italy andS pain. In California as early as 1850, it gratified a youthful curiosity to follow the irrigating ditches which t
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330499298
• ISBN 13: 9781330499290
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 34
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