The water supply is distributed through forty miles of mains, the consumption averaging three million gallons per day, exclusive of the contributions of the irrigating ditches and the numerous artesian wells.
Long lines of Lombardy poplars mark the boundaries of many farms and willows show where the big irrigating ditches pass or rivulets trickle.
It lunged into irrigating ditches and came pitching up out of them, while the hind boot dived in to be brought up with a frame-cracking jolt, and it rocked fore and aft like a Dutch lugger in a chop sea.
Already along its margin miles of ranches have been begun, by men digging small and temporary ditches bringing water to irrigate a single farm or a small group of fields in the bottom.
In addition to the dragging, weeds must be cut along the road about twice a year, the ditches must be kept cleaned out and culverts open.
Since there is no need to provide for ditches to carry storm water on a deep sand soil, the sand is graded off nearly flat across the road and no ditches are provided.
In regions of small rainfall the side ditches will be of small capacity or may be entirely omitted, but usually some ditch is provided.
The effect of precipitation is of significance primarily from the standpoint of erosion, and the design of cross section and ditches and the culvert provisions are entirely different from those necessary in humid regions.
Erosion in the ditches along a highway can be prevented by constructing weirs across the ditch at frequent intervals, thus effectually preventing an increase in the depth of the ditch.
The small ditches proving inadequate for these, Colonel Baldwin had formed a stock company among his neighbors in the grass-lands and his friends in Brewster for the building of a substantial dam in the eastern hills.
We're petitioning for an extension, but if we don't get it we shall still be able to back the water up so that it will flow into the lower level of ditches by next Thursday; that is, barring accidents.
To-morrow at midnight we must have the water running in the ditches or lose our franchise.
Are you going to get water into the ditches within your charter restrictions?
In the winter the ditchesare flooded to protect the cress from frost.
Where the amount of water available is limited, the ditches are arranged at successively higher levels, so as to allow of the volume admitted to the upper ditch being passed successively to the others.
The ditches are usually puddled with clay, which is covered to the depth of 9 to 12 in.
Water-cress is largely cultivated in shallow ditches, prepared in wet, low-lying meadows, means being provided for flooding the ditches at will.
Hence another phenomenon alluded to by Jenner: "The walls are damp, theditches smell.
The walls are damp, the ditches smell; Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel.
The weeds that had flourished along the sides of the ditches were all dead.
There it sufficed to run defensive banks and ditches across the neck of the promontory.
A much more common form of camp in Devon and Cornwall is one that is circular or oval, and consists of concentric rings of earth, or earth and stone mixed, with ditches between.
Furthermore, Enderby's ditches are habitually getting clogged, and overflowing the lawn and filling the cellar, and he stands in terror of his cowboys.
Painted farm-houses shone on the banks of the creeks, and irrigating ditches flashed across the road with an air of business and decision.
Hill and Whiting was in part over a plain about four hundred yards wide and was embarrassed by abattis and ditches in front of the first line.
I rode back and threw our right so as to take advantage of some ditches and fences to obstruct the cavalry if they should attempt to make a charge.
They encroach on the roads daily; the ditches are cultivated by them the same as their own property.
Hadrian & Seuerus, were ditched with notable ditches and rampires made in such wise, that the Scotish aduersarie had much a doo to enter and scale the same in his assaults.
Aquatic Spiders are most abundant in clear brooks and ditches near rivers; the small tributaries of the Lea, and the dykes that abound in the marshes at Tottenham, supply me with specimens whenever I seek them.
It is a pretty plant of a delicate green hue, which appears on the surface of brooks and ditches everywhere, both in this country and all over the continent.
During their continuance (fortunately they never last long) the water comes down in veritable sheets, rushing down slopes and mountain-sides in a resistless flood, swelling rivers in a few moments from ditches into torrents.
Cabins were then built for the families, and a fort, with ditches and ramparts, was begun.
An earthen rampart, ten feet high and four feet thick, surrounded it, but there were no ditches or palisades.
Between the road and the sidewalk are ditches paved with round polished stones and spanned by bridges under which rivulets of muddy water flow.
We would come to fields in the height of production with irrigation ditches full of water.
There are no conduits to carry away the rain water, nor any ditches at the sides of the streets.
Near the depot is a large finca surrounded by gum and poplar trees, and the sound of running water in the irrigation ditches behind the high adobe walls was refreshing.
In ditches by the way side the Water Byssus was observable (Byssus Flos aquae), particularly in places sheltered from the wind.
Not far from Norrala, situated about a mile from the last post-house, the water in the ditchesdeposits a thick sediment of ochre.
It has similarly been observed that it is often retained in the shelter of drains, or in the ditches of fortifications; whence frequent fevers among the sentries on particular guards, when the other soldiers escape.
However, the ramparts andditches are very fair and visible.
The modern turnpike-road between Corbridge and West-Woodburn adheres very closely to its track, and occasionally the ancient ditches protecting it on both sides are to be seen.
At the summit, the ditches of both Wall and Vallum are cut through the native rock, of which the hill consists, and are in excellent order.
A moat has surrounded the camp; on the east side, which is by nature the weakest, two ditches have been formed, which there is reason to believe were supplied with water.
Between the wood and the road," answered Hurst, "it is just like a gridiron, withditches enough to drain the sea.
By that time they were more used to the work; and in July came a rest time, when all they needed to do was to turn the waters of the big ditch into the little ditches that crinkled between the rows.
No fecal matter, dung, garbage, or entrails of animals killed shall be put into ditches or rivers or other waters, so that maladies and diseases will not be caused by corrupted and infected air.
Of this order the Butomas umbellatus, a sort of rush, producing very handsome pink flowers in umbels, growing in ditches and by the sides of rivers, is the most characteristic member.
This order includes the Butterworts, which are herbaceous indigenous plants, growing in ditches and wet places; they are divided into the Pinguicula and the Urticularia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ditches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
