The western part requires irrigation, the rainfall being only a few inches a year, but there is always plenty of water for irrigation in the rivers.

Future changes of farm areas may be expected to be of this same nature, mainly in the improvement of rough pastures, swamps, partly cleared woodlands, and desert lands awaiting irrigation.

OUDH (12,551), a province in the Bengal Presidency, occupying the basin of the Gumti, Gogra, and Rapti Rivers, and stretching from the N. bank of the Ganges to the lower Himalayas; is a great alluvial plain, through which these rivers flow between natural embankments, affording irrigation by their marshes and overflows.

The land is barren and dry, which compels them to induce irrigation through long canals from far away streams, and the men are never afraid of work.

I founded many new buildings throughout Assyria, and I opened out irrigation for corn in excess of what my fathers had done.

The Navajos have lived for centuries in a rich and fertile country; their name is said to mean "large cornfields" and the Spaniards found, about the middle of the sixteenth century, that they practised irrigation.

Who projected its irrigation, by which areas have been redeemed from barrenness and waste?

K.A. Wittfogel, Oriental Despotism, New Haven 1957 regards irrigation as a key economic and social factor and has built up his theory around this concept.

The lands were plowed; the seed was sown; the canals and water-courses, which ramified from the river in every direction over the ground, were opened or closed, as the case required, to regulate the irrigation.

Water is the only element necessary to ensure success to the Mexican wheat grower; but it is very difficult to attain thisand irrigation affords the most steady supply.

Ever since I came to have first-hand knowledge of irrigation, I have been impressed with the peculiar advantages which surround the irrigation rancher.