METHODS OF APPLYING WATER. 



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care should be exercised lest much of the best soil as 

 well as the manures applied be washed away. With 

 slopes at all pronounced, great care should be taken to 

 draw the irrigating furrows across the slopes in such 



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FIG. 58 — IRRIGATING A HILLSIDE. 



dire(5lion as may insure a proper flow without the dan- 

 ger of washing. No definite rule can be given for this, 

 but a little experience and training of the eye, to judge 

 of the proper declivity to insure a safe flow of water, 

 will soon tell the careful cultivator in what diredlion ^ 

 to run his irrigating furrows, if the water be applied 



