Above the straight line of the uppermost irrigating ditch, all is brown as on a high-road; while all below is of as bright a green as verdigris, from the beds of alfarfa, a kind of clover.
The remains of houses, enclosures, irrigating streams, and burial mounds, scattered over this plain, cannot fail to give one a high idea of the condition and number of the ancient population.
I may here mention that the Peruvians actually carried their irrigating streams in tunnels through hills of solid rock.
Scarcely any part of the world is so covered with irrigating canals as the highly cultivated plain of Lombardy, so that the whole of it appears like a great garden.
Immense irrigating plants and modern agricultural machinery make possible the large production in parts of the United States.
His explanation is that they indicate the existence of irrigatingcanals which carry the water produced annually by the melting of the polar snows to every part of the planet.
What we really see as dark lines are broad strips of vegetation, produced by artificial cultivation extending along each border of the irrigating streams.
All the water not used at Greeley for irrigating purposes is worked up into a light, nutritious drink for the people.
In digging an irrigating ditch on the Laramie Plains, last summer, the skeleton of an Indian chief was plowed up.
Then if cultivating and irrigating and all the rest of it can bring us big fruit, we'll get it.
He can't afford to put good gold into fertilizers and irrigating pumps.
Well, he should align the girls' irrigating ditch and then go about his business.
In lower Egypt a considerable area is made productive at the ordinary stage of water by means of irrigating canals, but in upper Egypt the crops must depend upon the annual flood of the river, which occurs from June until September.
Egypt is rapidly taking an important place among cotton-producing countries, and, with the completion of the various irrigating canals, will very soon rank next to the United States.
The general government is administrative only so far as the construction of railways, irrigating canals, and harbors, and the organization of financial affairs are concerned.
The streams are used for water power, domestic purposes, and for irrigating many of the largest lemon and orange groves of southern California.
Extensive flats are thus available for easy cultivation, and the through-flowing streams furnish abundant water to the irrigating canals.
On the opposite wall of the valley the line was as clearly marked out as if it had been an irrigating canal.
The roads, irrigating channels, and other public works of the Yncas were superior to anything of the kind that then existed in Europe.
In all parts of the Sierra of Peru the remains of irrigatingchannels are met with, which the Spaniards destroyed and neglected, and thus allowed the once fertile fields to return to their natural sterility.
The thickets of bushes in this valley are very shady, and irrigatingchannels flow through them.
It is nearly on the watershed of the maritime Cordillera, and is drained by a river which, after irrigating the valley of Ocoña, falls into the Pacific.
The fields were carefully manured, as well as watered by means of irrigating channels.
They are very ingenious in forming irrigating channels, building houses, cultivating the land, breeding stock, and in working gold and silver.
On this road there is a very large and strong wall, and the natives say that along the top of it a channel of water was conducted with great labour from a river, with the same skill and order as they make their other irrigating channels.
Also concerning their excellent system of irrigatingthe fields.
They took great care in irrigating their land, and also in sowing, which was done by many in concert together.
Also concerning their excellent system of irrigatingthe fields 233 CHAP.
Next to the wonderful roads, theseirrigating channels are the most convincing proofs of the advanced civilisation of the Yncas.
Irrigating streams will be made to flow by their own gravitation, while the wooden bucket and well-sweep will become idle and useless.
They introduced the cultivation of maize and cotton, constructed extensive irrigating ditches, built roads, and were a progressive race.
Where these fertile districts are seen, the results are brought about by the same irrigating ditches that the aborigines used more than three hundred years ago.
Water is the great, we may say the only, fertilizer--none other is ever used, and irrigating facilities are excellent.
In fact," said the stream, "I am being made into an irrigating ditch before I have had my fling in the world.
If you get to the town, they will turn you into an irrigating ditch, and set you to watering crops.
The recent marvelous agricultural development of this country as the result of an irrigating ditch cut near these bluffs is a revelation to those who first saw it as a barren area, a part of what was well named the Bad Lands.
The Irrigating Reservoir at Walnut Grove, Arizona, showing the Artificial Lake partly filled.
The homes are in villages a mile or more apart and often the holdings or rentals are scattered, separated by considerable distances, hence easy portability is the key-note in the construction of this irrigating outfit.
They have good adobe houses, many acres of wheat-fields, little peach and apricot orchards, irrigating ditches, and some fences.
The men were all away sheep-shearing; the women were at work in the fields, some hoeing, some clearing out the irrigating ditches, and all the old women plaiting baskets.
Near the well Haj Omer beckoned me to show me what he called, "water-courses of Christians," ancient irrigating ducts of the people of former times.
I have seen them tread upon the springing blades of grass when so irrigating them, to give their roots more force and tenacity in the ground.
Visited the nearest garden, and found the slaves occupied in irrigating it.
Water for irrigating the land must be secured and the land must be reclaimed and cultivated by means of such water for the period of four years after the preliminary entry, and the price of $1.
Envy and malice are characteristics almost peculiar to the farmer, and are especially shown about the time of irrigating the meadows.
In irrigating our meadows, we were frequently forced to protect ourselves against the tricks of the meadow farmer.
People occasionally burned incense there to avert drought and get enough water for irrigating their fields.
Turkestan to the Sea of Aral; it is believed at one time to have flowed into the Caspian, and there is record of two changes of course; half its waters are absorbed in irrigating the plains of Khiva.
The irrigating ditches contained many bands of a dozen or fifteen; the overflow ponds had each its little flock.
I saw four men with lanterns moving here and there among some willows that bordered what seemed to be an irrigating ditch with water.
This brought my approach to the blank side of the ranch where were the willow trees and the irrigating ditch.
As to the blank side of the house, that looked down on a wide, green, moist patch and the irrigating ditch with its stunted willows.
They were loafing in an angle of the lake formed by the banks of two submerged irrigating ditches, so we were enabled to measure them accurately.
They have adobe houses, fenced fields and orchards, and irrigating ditches.
The difficulty arises out of the fact of the use, and probably the improvident use, by the whites above them, of the water of the Gila River, by which they are deprived of all means of irrigating their lands.
An irrigating canal has been built for them at great expense; but farming operations have not as yet proved very successful.
All the fields before us seemed to be covered with water, and we at first thought that the irrigating streams had been turned on and were flowing through them.
A careless settler had allowed the water of his irrigating ditch to run out upon the road.
If,” continued the Doctor, “the sewage is used merely as water for irrigating purposes, that is another question.
Of course, there are places where the sewage of our cities and villages can be used for irrigating purposes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irrigating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
