Milton Whitney
Published: 2017-10-28
Total Pages: 84
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Excerpt from The Kali Soils of the Yellowstone Valley: From a Preliminary Investigation of the Soils Near Billings, Montana Hilgard has been pointing out for years that the only safe practice in bringing a new area under the ditch, in a soil which is at all likely to have alkali, is to use water very sparingly and to keep the surface under very thorough cultivation so that a minimum amount of water shall evaporate from the surface of the ground and that there shall be no accumulation of seepage waters in the subsoil. If these investigations do no mere than to show, the full results of overirrigation and the necessity of intelligent and careful application of water to the soil and the importance of underdrainage, where the alkali can not be otherwise controlled or' removed, the authors will be well repaid. 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.
