146 IRRIGATION IN UPPER INDIA. 
one cubic foot per second will irrigate 220 acres; and in others 
that one cubic foot per second will irrigate 70 acres of early kharif, 
50 acres of rice, and 120 acres of rabi. Major Home, R.E., found 
by actual measurement that, with the tank or reservoir irrigation, 
as practised in Ajmere, the average quantity of water required for 
one acre was 177,260 cubic feet, or in other words, one cubic foot 
the irrigating duty of one cubic foot per second. These figures 
a o account of the rainfall—that is the quantities of water 
stated as necessary are those which would be required in the to 
absence of rain. 
well as the nature and success of the services performed by Colonel 
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