Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of the Sixty-first Congress, Volumen3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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... course the source of floods is rainfall and snowfall , and the phenomena of rainfall and snowfall are so exceedingly variable that statistical proof the rela- tions between the two is not possible . I think it is hardly possible even ...
... course the source of floods is rainfall and snowfall , and the phenomena of rainfall and snowfall are so exceedingly variable that statistical proof the rela- tions between the two is not possible . I think it is hardly possible even ...
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... course , it is not subject to control , but it acts as a reservoir and feeds the springs and regulates the flow . The forest forms a million dams which interrupt the flow of the water ; and instead of running off swiftly over the slopes ...
... course , it is not subject to control , but it acts as a reservoir and feeds the springs and regulates the flow . The forest forms a million dams which interrupt the flow of the water ; and instead of running off swiftly over the slopes ...
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... course , even bushes are better than nothing . Bushes may grow up , and are better than the open slope , unprotected , but they are not anything like as good as forests . Moreover , in the open , after the forest has been cut off , fire ...
... course , even bushes are better than nothing . Bushes may grow up , and are better than the open slope , unprotected , but they are not anything like as good as forests . Moreover , in the open , after the forest has been cut off , fire ...
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... course the ultimate source of all floods is the rainfall ; but it does not follow from that that there is nothing which modifies that precipitation and affects the flow of the streams . Then he says that compared with the total area of ...
... course the ultimate source of all floods is the rainfall ; but it does not follow from that that there is nothing which modifies that precipitation and affects the flow of the streams . Then he says that compared with the total area of ...
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... course , would be inevi- table . But , of course , such a violent presumption as that is not in your mind ? Mr. SWAIN . Not at all . The CHAIRMAN . You will concede that part of the rain that falls even on a forested area will come into ...
... course , would be inevi- table . But , of course , such a violent presumption as that is not in your mind ? Mr. SWAIN . Not at all . The CHAIRMAN . You will concede that part of the rain that falls even on a forested area will come into ...
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