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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



It follows that the prevention of surface evaporation, to the 

 utmost extent possible, is of the first importance. 



Now, the simplest, cheapest, and most universally practicable 

 mode of diminishing evaporation from a bare land surface is to 





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