. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. "I have inade the ivatcrcourse to he a blessing for the people of Shu- uiir and Accad. I have spread the waters upon the desert. I have made the zvater to flow in the dry chan- nels and changed the desert into well watered lands. I have given them fertility and plenty. I have made them the abode of ; (From the Tablets of Hammur- abi.) The document from which the above text is quoted was written something like three thousand years before the be- ginning of the Christian era by an As- syrian monarch, but
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. "I have inade the ivatcrcourse to he a blessing for the people of Shu- uiir and Accad. I have spread the waters upon the desert. I have made the zvater to flow in the dry chan- nels and changed the desert into well watered lands. I have given them fertility and plenty. I have made them the abode of ; (From the Tablets of Hammur- abi.) The document from which the above text is quoted was written something like three thousand years before the be- ginning of the Christian era by an As- syrian monarch, but it sums up as well for this day as it did then the great things which the further extension of ir- rigation can do for the prosperity of Western Canada. To the uninitiated the word irrigation unfortunately con- notes deserts and famines and other un- desirable features, but to those who know what irrigation really means the associations are very different. To them it means intense cultivation, co-opera- tion, peace and plenty, "the abode of ; Irrigation is nothing more than the extension on a large scale of a practice indulged in by every housewife when she waters the carefully tended plants in her. â ^»yi. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Canadian Forestry Association. [Ottawa] : Canadian Forestry Association
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