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Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eded. The difficulties in the way of successful irri-gation are nothing like so great in Georgia. Prom our numerous creeksand rivers, by proper machinery, the water can be conveyed and dis-tributed wherever needed. Sometimes artesian wells can be used forthis purpose, irrigating the land through a system of ditches or storagetanks. Windmills can also be used for pumping up water from wellsand distributing it over a garden or field. TEEKACmG. The fertility of broken or rolling lands is greatly enhanced by strictattention to levels or horizontals in their cultivation. As the populationof the State increases, the old system of large plantations, onwhich exhausted lands could be turned out to rest, and new ones withsoil yet virgin brought under cultivation, becomes more and more im-practicable. Smaller farms become a necessity, as more people come into take up the land, and the importance of devising plans, by which thefertility of all lands may be preserved, becomes yearly more apparent.
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD INDUSTRIAL. 321 Especially in river bottoms the exhausting process takes from the ab-sorbing capacity of the land and renders it more liable to overflow. In-structed by repeated disastei-s in the bottom lands, and in those of theSavannah river in particular, by which for three consecutive years thofarmers of Georgia were sent West for their com, a few pioneers beganas far back as 1885 to put their land under a more or less perfect systemof level cultivation, and four years later the ten-ace reform began in earn-est all over Middle Georgia. As to proper methods of terracing, completeinstructions, which meet all cases, cannot be given. To one who has nevertried it, but who wishes to adopt this system, a visit to some well-terracedfarm, with its unbroken horizontal lines well sodded in grass for the pur-pose of conserving the rainfall, would be an object-lesson easily compre-hended and worth more practically than the study, or blind follomng of■^ instructions th

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