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Title: Irrigation in the United States : testimony of Elwood Mead, Irrigation Expert in Charge, before the United States Industrial Commission, June 11 and 12, 1901
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936 United States. Industrial Commission on Agriculture and Agricultural Labor United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Subjects: Irrigation United States
Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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tion. Q. You desired to make some reference to the California map.Have you that at hand?—A. That was simply to illustrate. We havethe map here, but I think we have gone over the points. I may, per-haps, in speaking of the extent of irrigation and the restricted areasthat are irrigated and will be irrigated, call attention to one of theCalifornia maps here that shows the relative area irrigated in theleading irrigation State of the country, with the unirrigated anduncultivated portions. The purple areas there are the areas that areirrigated. Q. (By Mr. Litchman.) Appears to be a very small portion?—A.Very. That is true of every State if you compare the total. IRRIGATION IN THE HUMID SECTIONS. Q. (By Mr. A. L. Harris.) Now, 3^011 will please take up the humidparts of the United States.—A. We have in this country been con-sidering irrigation as a sectional matter, and it never will have the U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bui. 105, Office of Expt. Stations. Irrigation Investigations. PLATE XI
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Map of Bear River, Showing Location of Ditches and irrigated Land. 39 importance in the East that it has in the West. But there is everyreason to believe that irrigation is to be largely employed throughoutthe humid portion of the United States in the growing of high-pricedand special products. The work done in Connecticut, Massachusetts,and New Jersey shows that in the growing of small fruits irrigation isexceedingly profitable, and in market gardening it is now being largelyutilized. The cranberry growers of Wisconsin and the farmers in thesandy pine lands of the Northwest are beginning to utilize irrigationas a means of getting crops started, of getting a sod established onthose sandy lands; and there seems reason to believe that there willbe quite extensrre stretches of territory scattered through the humiddistricts Avhere irrigation will be very largely employed. The marketgardeners around our large cities in the East and the tobacco growersof Connecticut are using irrigation to

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