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... in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and hous... ... * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and houses Place... ...n my life. * Young people don't want to farm. * Life is dying out from irrigation canals. * Should we have more development. ... ... * Young people don't want to farm. * Life is dying out from irrigation canals. * Should we have more development. ... ..., there were only a few small roofs made of concrete tiles. We didn't have irrigation then and farming was totally dependent on the rains. If it didn... ...rdly ever see them kept. Families that get water for their fields from the irrigation network move over to machines. Here in Srii Muod Klao it's hard ... ...nvironment. In those days, you could drink it, but not today. The water in canals and ponds contains so much poison and fertilizer that you can't drin... ...the rains. If there wasn't enough water, the crops were poor. But when the irrigation network was built, since then, we've been able to farm even area... ... valleys have turned into agricultural plains, criss-crossed by irrigation canals and chains of densely built villages with their palm trees, temples...

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... places. We stopped in an orange grove to eat, water rippling by us in an irrigation ditch. Cross-legged we ate cheese and dates and drank wine Klei... ...isit Chambord, when the court’s away...we ought to see how your canal and irrigation jobs are coming along...remember, Sr. Migliarotti is pretty laz... ... purchased my portrait of A Boy. That rolling land, the swift Adda, those canals, the villa gardens with their Roman statues and roses...roses...the... ...ronzes 15,000 Dissections and Anatomy Studies 10,000 Engineering Projects (canals, locks, swamps) 20,000 Architecture, Music, Horology 10,000 Maps, Ge... ...go on: “Perhaps those years in Milan were the busiest years of my life. Irrigation projects, The Last Supper mural, easel paintings, the horse...y... ...dred causes, ordaining and cancelling, defying and acknowledging, digging canals, raising temples. Slave of every beautiful woman he meets, he prese...

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...rest, also, in that they use the same laborious methods of cultivation and irrigation which their ancestors have employed for centuries past. The low ... ...r that The Record regards the schedule as very satis- factory. THEORETICAL CANALS aOLDBAU^f & RAPOPORT College Tailors Represented by F. B. Goldbaum A... ...ches as against 30 for the earth. In 1876-7, Schiaparelli discov- ered the canals on Mars, but his discoveries were discredited until 1880 when Lowell... ...egions, and oc- cupy about 5-8 of the non-polar surface of the planet. The canals stiirt from wedKe-shaped "carets" at the poles, are straight, about ... ...s'' are black dots, about ten miles in diameter, which are situated in the canals, fre- quently at points of intersection. Lowell's theory of the surf...

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... have rivaled and out-produced all of the crops grown by its use of artificial irrigation a thousand miles further south. It was the biggest con job... ...hops and factories. Steam engines replaced water wheels. Railroads replaced canals. Machines exploded onto the scene and multiplied, and thrived....

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... were lit by electric light, and many establishments had made, as it were, canals of public footpaths through their premises in order to increase thei... ...y weeds, upon white roads lying bare to the sun and upon a tracery of blue canals. The pastures were alive with cattle, the roads had a busy traffic, ... ...ng villages, each with its fine old church, or in compact towns laced with canals and abounding in bridges and clipped trees, were human habitations. ... ...ested, ambiguously obser- vant Dutch. All the barges and shipping upon the canals had been requisitioned for transport. In that clear, bright, warm we... ...pen- dent for the general welfare on the railways and that great system of irrigation canals which the malignant section of the patriots had destroyed... ...or the general welfare on the railways and that great system of irrigation canals which the malignant section of the patriots had destroyed, were in a... .... Hither it was that with a dreamlike swiftness Karenin flew high over the irrigations of Rajputana and the towers and cupolas of the ultimate Delhi; ...

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...shows a region where chestnuts flourish. The springs, carefully applied to irrigation, water the mead- 76 The Village Rector ows only , nourishing th... ...hree or four miles,—an immense reser- voir, which shall supply the flow of irrigation with which I will fertilize the plain of Montegnac.” “Ah, madame... ...plans to the young men employed in land surveying, to contrac- tors on the canals, and makers of the embankments, and none of them see any “advantage”... ...architect, painter, inventor of hydraulics, in- defatigable constructor of canals that he was? Trained from their earliest years to the baldness of ax... ... has ninety-nine million acres, which, subtracting highways, roads, dunes, canals, and barren, un- cultivated regions deserted by capital, may be redu... ...d built, and by clearing out the accumulation of earth which choked it up, irrigation would be helped rather than hindered by this natural sluice- way... ...ished by the middle of August. At the same time Gerard was preparing three canals in the princi- pal valleys, and none of these works came up to his e... ...e up to his esti- mated costs. The chateau farm could now be finished. The irrigation channels through the plain, superintended by Fresquin, started f...

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...l the soil which had to be removed to make a channel for the river and the irrigation canals. When the Baron de Watteville thus obtained the lake abov... ...which had to be removed to make a channel for the river and the irrigation canals. When the Baron de Watteville thus obtained the lake above his dam h...

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...nd the various wind-breaks and scare-crows he erected, and particularly an irrigation contrivance he began and never finished by which every- 22 The ... ...d interested, through shabby back streets of mean little homes; I followed canals, sometimes ca- nals of mysteriously heated waters with ghostly wisps...

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...oughfare, and greatly enjoying the huge piles of building belonging to the sugar refiners, the little masts and vanes in small back gardens in back st... ... side within, and stick- ing out at each. 3. Behind the coach, the mourner, for whom the coach was intended, walking in the dust. 4. Concealed behind ...

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...In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, consulted various experts, and produced his own scientific analysis of the martian climate and atmospheric conditions. Among other things Wallace pointed out...

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...eep, eat, and write letters, was bound up with the opening and guarding of irrigation canals, the handling of two or three thousand workmen of all cas... ...nd write letters, was bound up with the opening and guarding of irrigation canals, the handling of two or three thousand workmen of all castes and cre... ...ht it with one hand, and continued his talk with Scott. It was all “shop,”—canals and the policing of canals; the sins of villag- ers who stole more w... ...o was discipline profit- able to the soul. “He’s much too good to waste on canals,” said Jimmy. “ Any one can oversee coolies. You needn’t be angry, W...

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...ry gentle slope up the valleys: hence, also, they are easily cultivated by irrigation. They may be traced up to a height of between 7000 and 9000 feet... ...nd more barren. In the valleys there was scarcely sufficient water for any irrigation; and the intermediate land was quite bare, not supporting even g... ...arwin much depend on inequalities of level, and conse- quent unfitness for irrigation, as on the small sup- ply of water. The river this year was rema... ... rill of water would probably be formed in this great valley; and then, by irrigation (which was formerly so well understood by the Indians), the soil... .... Near it was the dry course of a considerable river, whence the water for irrigation had formerly been conducted. There was nothing in the appearance... ...th of these productions there is a limit. The country is totally unfit for canals, there- fore there is a not very distant point, beyond which the lan...