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Excerpt from Agricultural Nevada
There are three factors which are essential to successful agriculture, in addition to the fourth which is the human factor of plowing, planting, and harvesting, namely climate, with respect to the mean and extreme range of temperature of the seasons; soil, with respect to the constituents required for plant life, and humidity, with respect to the moisture necessary to grow crops. The. Latter factor in the arid region must be supplied by irrigation. It was once thought that Nature could not be improved upon by any artificial means of supplementing a natural deficiency of humidity. But that belief has been overthrown by the comparative results of the fruitfulness of like soils: in the one instance dependent on the uncertainties of rainfall, and in the other on moisture within the control of the agriculturist, to be given his crops when needed and withheld when not. Farmers who have had experience under both conditions are substantially unanimous in their preference of irrigation over rainfall. It is contended that not only is there a greater certainty of harvest, but that, other conditions being equal, equivalent lands will grow larger cr0ps under skilful irrigation than with rainfall. We have stated that Nevada, contrary to prevailing opinion, holds the promise of a great agricultural future. On what ground is this outlook based? The answer is: On climate, soil and irrigation; the conservation of the surface and subsurface waters of the State to supplement the deficiency of climatic humidity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
