. Notes on irrigation in Connecticut and New Jersey. doubtecUy practicable in Xew Jersey. It only remainsto demonstrate by furtlier study and exx)eriment its adaptability to tbevaryiug conditions, in reference to crop and soil, the methods by whichit may be most economically accomplished, aud the advantages thatmay accrue therefrom, in order that a valuable resource of the State,namely, water supply, may be largely utilized in this direction. O. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1897. OFFICE. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. United States Depart^ient of AGnicrLTUEE, Office of Experimetst Stations, Washingt
. Notes on irrigation in Connecticut and New Jersey. doubtecUy practicable in Xew Jersey. It only remainsto demonstrate by furtlier study and exx)eriment its adaptability to tbevaryiug conditions, in reference to crop and soil, the methods by whichit may be most economically accomplished, aud the advantages thatmay accrue therefrom, in order that a valuable resource of the State,namely, water supply, may be largely utilized in this direction. O. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1897. OFFICE. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. United States Depart^ient of AGnicrLTUEE, Office of Experimetst Stations, Washington^ D, 0., Dece^nher 15^ 1896. Sir: I have tlie honor to transmit lierewitli, and recommend forpublication as Bulletin Xo. 36 of this Office, two articles on irrigationin the Eastern United States, entitled, respectively, Irrigation in Con-necticut, by C. S. PheliDS, professor of agriculture, Storrs AgriculturalCollege, and vice-director Connecticut Storrs Agricultural ExperimentStation, and Irrigation in Xew Jersey, by Edward B. Yoorhees, M. A.,director of the Xew Jersey Agricultural Experiment stations and pro-fessor of agriculture in Eutgers College. These articles embody inpart investigations conducted by the Connecticut Storrs and ^^^ew JerseyExperiment stations. Although irrigation has been practiced for many years in the EasternStates on a limited scale, especially on grass lands, it is only within acomparatively few years that annotesonirrigatio36phel
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