Ego DAYPORNIA IRRIGATION FARMING A HANDBOOK FOR THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF WATER IN THE BY LUTE WILCOX ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK ORANGE JUDD COMPANY PREFACE. RRIGATION has become such an important factor in modern agricultural pursuits, and is becoming more or less essential in all parts of our vast domain, particularly in the western half of the United States, that the need of more specific knowledge pertaining to this great science seemed the imperative demand of the hour, and it is on this hypothesis that the author has essayed to indite this volume. In treating upon so wide and diversified a subject as universal irrigation, I have endeavored throughout to make all points touched upon as explicit and comprehensive as possible, avoiding all useless verbiage, and handling the subject as understandingly as lay within my power of diction. The text of the work is based largely upon personal experience, although it is but fair to add that some of the deductions contained in these pages, especially as to those in which the technical features are most prominent, are adapted from the observations of others. have relied somewhat upon the valuable knowledge of hydraulic engineers and scientists, and have accepted the best authorities attainable whenever technical matters had to be considered. One strong position taken by the writer all through the work is the importance of consistent and scientific 526703 |