FARM IRRIGATION 



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Humid States 



State 

 Alabama 

 Connecticut . 

 Florida 

 Maine . 

 Massachusetts 

 Mississippi 

 New Jersey . 

 New York 

 Pennsylvania 

 Rhode Island 



Area, Acres 



95 

 379 

 8,772 



17 

 283 

 114 



48 

 159 

 906 



15 



Total 5,788 acres 

 Grand Total 9,487,077 acres 



Under date of Oct. 23, 1906, Mr. Elwood Meade, 

 Chief of Irrigation and Drainage Investigations, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, writes: 

 "I think these figures might be increased by 10 per 

 cent, to represent the present area. The increase 

 is very generally distributed, so that you would not 

 be far wrong to increase the area for each state 

 10 per cent." 



The average size of irrigated farms in arid 

 America is 67 acres. Practically two-fifths of 

 the United States is arid. The dryest and 

 warmest state is Arizona. There is no sharp 

 line between arid and semi-arid conditions; in 

 dry seasons most of the plains west of the 

 Missouri are arid or semi-arid, while in wet 

 seasons the humid area encroaches upon this. 

 A belt of country which is neither arid nor humid 

 extends through North Dakota, western Nebraska 

 western Kansas, Oklahoma and central Texas. 

 This is called by some the sub-humid, by others 

 the semi-arid region. It comprises over 300,000,000 

 acres. In wet seasons it produces good crops 

 without irrigation. 



