Pacific service magazine . c Company, SanFrancisco; E. O. Shreve,district manager, GeneralElectric Company, SanFrancisco; B. D. Moses,Agricultural Engineering Division, Col-lege of Agriculture, University of Cali-fornia, executive secretary. This commit-tee is now actively at work. The State of California contains approx-imately one hundred and one million acresof land, of which the area considered to besuitable for cultivation is estimated attwenty-two million acres. Now, to prop-erly cultivate these lands there must bewater, and California with her wet anddry seasons has not in her natural s
Pacific service magazine . c Company, SanFrancisco; E. O. Shreve,district manager, GeneralElectric Company, SanFrancisco; B. D. Moses,Agricultural Engineering Division, Col-lege of Agriculture, University of Cali-fornia, executive secretary. This commit-tee is now actively at work. The State of California contains approx-imately one hundred and one million acresof land, of which the area considered to besuitable for cultivation is estimated attwenty-two million acres. Now, to prop-erly cultivate these lands there must bewater, and California with her wet anddry seasons has not in her natural streamsthe constant flow that gladdens the heartof the agriculturist during the five monthsof the year when irrigation is an absolutenecessity. As a rule, from April to Octoberof each year neither rain nor snow falls inCalifornia, so that when the supply ofsnow in the mountains is exhausted andrun ofi in the various streams to the oceanthere is little or no water flowing into themain rivers, particularly those that irrigate.
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