Irrigation Guide

Excerpt from Irrigation Guide: A Concise Treatise of Irrigation, Designed for the Practical Farmer, Who Is Convinced of the Advantages of Irrigation, but Does Not Know How to Practice It There are' thousands of 'farms east of the Miss issippi, that could be irrigated with small ex pense, compared to the advantage to be, derived, Corn lands, that usually make 40 or 50 bushels per acre, would with one or two irrigatings, during the dry time in J ulv and august-,make 80 to 100 bushels per. Acre. \tat lands, produciag'żo to 20 bushels per. Acre, ought with one irrigating, make 30 to GO bushels per. Acre, and so on. Through the list. 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.