Crop-producing aid

Usage examples of irrigation.

Monday, May 18 0210 hours Coast road South of Amoy, China Murdock moved his troops into a dry irrigation ditch three feet deep that ran alongside the roadway.

The delta of the Rio Colorado has always been tricky for to navigate, and they tell me that lately, since your Anglo settlers have been drawing irrigation water from its tributaries, it has gotten worse.

They turned Archimedean screws to bring water from the Margush into the irrigation canals.

For three successive years he spent considerable money and effort, producing nothing except the hard-won conclusion that without irrigation his benchlands were useless, except to grow native grass for the grazing of cattle.

Once students and professors crowded the rooms and hallways of this fortress, studying modern irrigation and biotechnical crop engineering.

With her practical eye, Sister Hilaria observed the tillable acreage along the Yucca River and the river itself, which could be partially diverted for irrigation.

The Mogollon of the eastern region, the Anasazi of the northeastern highlands, and the Hohokam of southern Arizona, who had been able to raise crops in a barren desert because of the irrigation ditches they had scraped out with stones and shells.

In irrigation, especially in nonporous soils, the surfactant aids soil penetration.

It sounded dreadfully like the Alujis river rights business again, two upstream provinces against three downstream which relied on its water for irrigation.

Between us and the buildings, which suggested a small walled city, the clearing contained a few scattered trees, but most of the ground was given over to cultivation, being traversed by irrigation ditches of an archaic type which has been abandoned upon the surface for many ages, having been superseded by a system of subirrigation when the diminishing water supply necessitated the adoption of conservation measures.

In Tulare County, California, as much as 6 to 10 tons have been secured under irrigation.

They built aqueducts for purposes of irrigation some of which were five hundred miles long.

New associations for protecting the land from inundations, for irrigation purposes, and for maintaining canals are continually formed, and the unanimity of all peasants of a neighbourhood, which is required by law, is no obstacle.

Company advertise themselves as brokers and dealers in high-class Western securities, and they offer stock in that Sunset Irrigation Company.

At about this same time too, frogs reappeared in the irrigation ditches, and folks once more heard them singing at night, obviously because the old sheepherder had become so busy stitching miniature clodhoppers for the Sainted Child and otherwise trying to bring back Pendejo that he no longer had time for his nocturnal canine patrol of the waterways.