. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . our modern practice. And in our own countrywe may see, in the Southwestern territories, water meadows and ditcheswhich were made long before the discovery of this continent by Colum-bus, and which are still in use. So in cheapness and etfectivenessof construction the practice of irrigation commends itself to our noticemost favorably. But where water must be raised, one need not deny \ himself of its advantages while wind, water and steam are such cheap ) motive powers, for the raising may be cheaply don
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . our modern practice. And in our own countrywe may see, in the Southwestern territories, water meadows and ditcheswhich were made long before the discovery of this continent by Colum-bus, and which are still in use. So in cheapness and etfectivenessof construction the practice of irrigation commends itself to our noticemost favorably. But where water must be raised, one need not deny \ himself of its advantages while wind, water and steam are such cheap ) motive powers, for the raising may be cheaply done. ®. 274 ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER How TO Make a Water Meadow. A water meadow, strictly speaking, is a level piece of land on the bankof a stream, so situated that the land may be banked to retain the water,and ditched to carry the water off when the soil is saturated, and thatthe water of the stream may be brought by its natural gravity from ahigher level above, or may be raised by damming or by some cheap me-chanical power, such as a water wheel or windmill. For the better under-. Fig. 304.—Plan of Water Meadow. Standing of the necessary arrangement the accompanying diagrams may beuseful. In fig. 304 is given a plan of a typical water meadow. Thestream is shown Til a a a ; the ditch by which the water is taken from thestream at b ; the banks to retain the water at r r r ; the distributing ditch at ^ ^; the waste outlets at e, f^^miMW^^^MM^mmMMWwMM^^mT and g. In fig. 305 is given a sec. tional view of the surface of theY\z. zot,.—Section alo7ig the Stream. same meadow from the upper tothe lower part, parallel with the course of the stream, and in fig. 306 isshown a section across the meadow from the high ground to the reference letters are the same in all. The method of construction isas follows: The land is first plowed and levelled by means of a scraj^er,if necessary, so asto get a smoothsurface with a verygentle slope to-wards the stream ^^^ ^6^(://
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