The water of the quebrada is never sufficiently abundant to irrigate the whole of the cone of the torrent.
A large storage reservoir used to irrigate the ranches in the valley below.
No springs or streams sufficient to irrigate with, unversed in digging wells and pumping water to the surface, one would have thought an ignorant Indian would have looked elsewhere before planting his corn in such a place.
The spring at Indian Garden is large enough to irrigate a small tract of ground.
I irrigate my orchard, using a windmill and pump with a four-inch cylinder.
I make cider and vinegar of the culls, but do not dry, store nor irrigate any.
I irrigate thoroughly in the winter, early spring, and again before the fruit begins to ripen.
I irrigate my trees on the upland four or five months.
I irrigate with a windmill and earth reservoir; it makes big trees.
I irrigate with a 4-1/2-inch-cylinder pump and well.
The reports from those who irrigate are not as full as we could wish.
I have tried irrigation on a small scale, but do not irrigate now.
I irrigate by flooding the ground all over thoroughly when necessary.
I irrigate a little; have a pond around the trees.
It is not necessary to have a creek to irrigate an orchard.
I irrigatemy trees direct from a well, in ditches running close to the trees.
But the waters that now run to waste in the Pacific Ocean, on the west coast of Mexico, will be harnessed to irrigate the orchards and gardens of the Japanese and an Asiatic and not a Caucasian race will possess Mexico.
They would figure on first reclaiming all the mesa land on which the water could in this way be used, and then they would build pumping plants with which to irrigate the more elevated lands.
The water with which to irrigate every unirrigated acre of it runs to waste year after year.
It should build the works necessary to bring the water to irrigate this land from the Sacramento River by the great main-line canal from the river to the straits of Carquinez.
We arrived at the Alameda, but before reaching it there are three little creeks, one of which couldirrigate a garden.
When the various sections of the arroyo had been explored, the water was found to be of the same quantity throughout and in my opinion can irrigate two or three ditches of corn at the same time because of the slope of the land.
The waters remain upon the surface of the land during the months of Elul and Tishri, and irrigate and fertilize it.
Every valley has its stream, and though many of them are not of sufficient size to be navigable, yet all afford ample supplies of water to irrigate the plantations on their banks.
It is used by the inhabitants in making fine lime, and in building bridges over the small canals, with which they irrigate their fields.
You Must Irrigate Your Neighborhood Half a century ago there were ten million acres of land, within a thousand miles of Chicago, upon which not even a blade of grass would grow.
At present we had no more than enough water--sometimes hardly enough--to irrigate our crops, but by doubling the supply we could bring into use another hundred acres or more.
There were two of them, set in niches of the rock on either side of the pool; for, to irrigate the land on both sides of the creek, we necessarily had to have two ditches.
The river went dry most of the year; but enough water was stored in flood season to irrigate the gardens and alfalfa fields.
That stone-walled, stone-floored gulch would never leak, and already it contained water enough to irrigate the whole Altar Valley for two dry seasons.
It came about that he actually had to pay the Chases for water to irrigate his alfalfa fields.
It looks good for Forlorn River, but bad for Dick's plan to irrigate the valley.
And it may well be that, when a supply of water can be had at slight cost, it will be cheaper to irrigate the land, or water the plants, rather than to furnish such an excess of manure, as is now found necessary.
That stream which runs through the farm in the spring, and then dries up, could be made to irrigate several acres of the land adjoining.
I drain this land, and after it is drained I dam up some of the streams that flow into it or through it, and irrigatewherever I can make the water flow.
On the Pacific coast, the rule is to cultivate every year and irrigate where they can, but to cultivate, at any rate, whether they irrigate or not.
Within sight of the village is a shallow, rapid brook, which serves to irrigate many well-tilled plantations about the suburbs.
This branch of the stream is used to irrigate the province of Tanjore, and the coming of its floods is celebrated by the natives with special festivities, as they consider the river to be one of their most beneficent deities.
From these branches in each year, at a fixed season, are poured down the sediment-charged waters which irrigate and fertilize an immense valley that would otherwise be only a parched and desert waste.
If the wound cavity be clean, and if there be no odour, it is sufficient to irrigate it with a simple saline or boric lotion.
The final step is to irrigate the cavity with warm boric or saline solution and to insert drains of gauze or of fine india-rubber tubing between the dura mater and bone.
The immediate treatment is to irrigate the part with weak biniodide of mercury solution, and then to remove more bone over the site of the injury.
It is sufficient to irrigate the wound with some mild aseptic lotion and afterwards to repack it lightly.
It is nowhere possible to irrigate the land from it.
If it does, there'll be a lake here that'll furnish water enough to irrigate blame near all of the Topaz Desert--believe me.
With a hundred and sixty acres of cotton to irrigate and keep chopped out?
I've been learning to irrigatethe cotton rows and I can help," she said.
Let him first irrigate them with his blood and bury in them his wife and daughter!
Though wanting in water, yet these all had small streams of some sort flowing through them, which if carefully husbanded could be made to irrigate thousands of fertile acres all through here.
But these cascades could be utilized immediately, to irrigate much of the bottoms of the Snake at trifling expense, if anybody chose to settle there.
The little Weber River passes down the valley, on its way to Great Salt Lake, and its waters had everywhere been diverted, and made to irrigate nearly every possible acre of ground.
As we got farther up the Park, the soil grew thinner, and more volcanic in its origin; but we crossed several handsome streams, that might be made to irrigate considerable land there.
The country immediately about the town was dull and barren, from want of water to irrigate and cultivate it.
There is a good breadth of fine land here, and near here, and the river ought to be made to irrigate the whole valley.
Draining a wide region of country, it rushed with a rapid descent to the Columbia, and hereafter should be utilized not only to irrigate largely, but also to drive numerous mills and factories, that ought then to throng its banks.
However this may be, there are fine lands all along the bottoms of the Salado, and enough water flowing there yet to irrigatemany thousands of acres.
Wherever a stream issued from the canons, it had been caught up and carried far up and down the plateau, to irrigate a wide breadth of land, and its application appeared always to have met with a generous return.
It is believed that the mountain streams, if turned into proper channels, will irrigate the greater part of the Plains, both east and west of the Mountains.
The land is all there, and plenty of water to irrigate it (if only the Gila can be subdued, and surely it can), and the climate the year round must be delicious.
At Umritsur I had seen those great canals that are commencing to irrigate and fertilize the vast deserts that stretch to Scinde.
Not only did he irrigatethe fields and fill the wells with water, but he was also accountable for the dreadful tempests which sweep over Mesopotamia.
In many texts he is praised as the god "who opens up the subterranean sources in order to irrigate the fields," and the withdrawal of his favour is followed by famine and distress.
