. The California vegetables in garden and field; a manual of practice with and without irrigation for semitropical countries. Vegetable gardening. 42 CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES Stibterreanean Water Sources.âThere are few places where water for a home garden cannot be had by well-digging and there are many large districts where flowing wells are secured by shallow boring. At the bases of hills horizontal wells or tunnels are fre- quently satisfactory. The capacity of these wells and tunnels is sometimes very great. They often warrant long-ditch lines or figure in the supply of towns and cities. Unqu
. The California vegetables in garden and field; a manual of practice with and without irrigation for semitropical countries. Vegetable gardening. 42 CALIFORNIA VEGETABLES Stibterreanean Water Sources.âThere are few places where water for a home garden cannot be had by well-digging and there are many large districts where flowing wells are secured by shallow boring. At the bases of hills horizontal wells or tunnels are fre- quently satisfactory. The capacity of these wells and tunnels is sometimes very great. They often warrant long-ditch lines or figure in the supply of towns and cities. Unquestionably the present de- velopment of water by these means is only a fraction of what is possible and the owner of untried land should undertake a reason- able amount of prospecting. It is, of course, easy to waste money in this way, but if one proceeds after as full study as he can make of the surface, the outcroppings of rock, the experience of others in the same region, he is pretty sure to realize upon reasonable antici- pations. Excavations in dry creek beds of gravel and boulders have often brought to light considerable underflow which has been ar- rested and the water stored by cement dams resting on the bed â '%,. â¢^'Hiii-'-y- Reclaimed by Reservoir Building. Flowing wells and wells which bring the water near to the sur- face constitute the main source of subterranean water employed in California. They have reclaimed large districts which were form- erly arid wastes and they are largely used also for summer crops in regions of ample winter rains. Well borers equipped with good appHances are to be found in all parts of the state. WATER-LIFTING DEVICE. At this point it will be well to remark that any gardener is fortunate who has water brought to the highest point of his planta- tion by its own weight without a struggle on his part against the force of gravity, and yet there are thousands of instances of satis- factory home gardening by simple water-lifting
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