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social relatiuiisliii) iLe peui)le liviiijj;' under the same canal. A common 

 interest binds tliem tooether. ... If the canal breaks or water is 

 misused, the dangler is to all. In the distribution of the water in the 

 hot summer months when ihe flow is small and the need g'real, the 

 neig-hbour and his rights loom large, and men must gird themselves 

 with the golden rule. The intensive culture which must prevail under 

 irrig-ation makes possible close settlements, often with the village as 

 centre, (^ut of the desert, as the canals are dug, Avill come great 

 results of successful experiments in intimate rural life; and out of 

 the cohununities reared under irrigation will come men who, conlident 

 that it is best, can unflintdiingly consider their neighbours' interests 

 with their own ; and who, therefore, can assume 'eadership in advanc- 

 ing a civilization based upon order and equal lights. The environ- 

 ment of wise inigation farming compels the belief that of all kinds 

 of fainiing it may be the most enduring." (J. A. Widtsoe in 

 "Principles of rrrigatioii i'ractice." ptige 47(1.) 



li" I'ippicrles, flleii School <i1' Af^ricultiirt'. 



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