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Irrigation and Drainage 



of rotation in rice culture which shall furnish oppor- 

 tunity for all of the red rice to have been germinated 

 and killed before another crop is placed upon the 

 ground, and it is the great ease with which the Caro- 

 lina planters are able to control this difficulty, and 

 the greater cost of rotation necessitated by other 



Fig. 101. Plan of rice irrigation, as practiced in South Carolina. 



conditions, which gives them one of their great 

 advantages over other rice -growers, enabling them to 

 command the highest price in the markets of the 

 world. 



The detailed method of handling water on a Caro- 

 lina rice plantation is represented in Fig. 101, where 

 eight of the many fields shown in Fig. 67 are 

 represented enlarged. 



