THE FARMERS* CABINET, 



AMERICA?; HERD-BOOK, 



DEVOTED TO 



AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE. AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



** The Productions of the E 



Vol. vii — \o. '.'.; 



1th mo. 'Apri: 15th. 1843. 



r\» hole >o. 99. 



JOSIAH TATUI, 



PROPRIETOR AND PUBLISHER, 



>"o. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



. hy the Proprietor and James F 



■ dollar per; iditionsseel 



i the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Irrigation. 



I have loi 2 f the mind, thai 



;. . were not generally aware 

 great benefits - derived in 



situations, fi at a triflino 



jpense, the water of their small streams 

 over their ^rass lands. In the 

 [the old _ 



extent. We ail have heard of the wonder- 

 .unieated to the lands adja- 

 cent to the Nile, by the overflowing of it? 

 waters. In Cairo there is a canal called Kha- 



the Nile is 

 enough, and from that the water is con 1 



reservoirs and cisterns, and is afterwards 

 ibuted into th - ad gardens, as oc- 



ons require. Wicker baskets, lined 

 - ne modern trav- 

 sometimes used in E ' raising the 



"hich is swung over the banks of the 

 ile by means of a rope, men. 



•tied into canals, which convey it to 

 oes where t is for ii _ ition. 



-process: s - heen made 



ise of, for increasing the fertility of their 

 le waters of the chief rivers of 

 as the Po. the A 

 riiarnento.and of all the minor str 

 loyedinirr There is no other 



?s an extent of 

 meadows, equal to that of the Lom- 

 ards. The entire country from Venice to 

 Lurin, may be said to be formed into one 

 real water meadow: t 1 gating 



. is not confined to gTass lands. 

 iveyed into the hollows be" 

 -. ."i corn lands — into the low . 

 is cultivated, and around the roots 

 =. From 11 ractice ex: 



nto the South of France — into S 

 Cab.— Vol. VII.— No. 9. 



:. In the ~~ F Lcm- 



_". " .. •" r of all the river- 

 the State: in those of Venice, the govern- 



s to that of 1 

 streams, and even to collections of rain ica- 

 ter! So highly, for the use of the cultiva- 

 : every kind valued, in the 

 It is necessary, thei 

 in Lombardy, to purchase from I 

 iter taken from the r 

 by means of a canal, through any per- 

 - 's grounds, the government mere 



" of the value of the 

 straining him 

 from carrying his rough a g 



. certain dis 

 ter is s the g - 



gulatad by the size 

 sluice, an I the time 1 f water 



- - her by the hour, hai; 

 or quarter, or by so many days, 



- of the year 

 of water, is regit] ly sold, • other pro- 

 Arthur Young gives an account of 

 - run of wal 

 a sluice, near Turi: . 

 1778, 1500 livres. The rent o: _ - 



i - 

 . 

 - 

 ■Tn Bengal, wells _ . 



- 

 : over a pi. 

 is raised in buckets and convey* 

 channels to ever No at- 



ssia 



mode or other. The art of irri_ 



not confined to the old world. The Mexi- 



- 

 lumbus. They collected the mount- 

 rents, and conducted their waters I 



- in proper - with much care 



Hress." — See Farmer's R . — 



Mat/, 1 



In England, this mode of tur. 

 streams to the a . tag grical- 



a very extensively practiced. 

 of their finest pasture lands owe their pro- 

 eness to this artificial application of 

 water. : 





