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Excerpt from Drainage in the Sacramento Valley Rice Fields The necessity for adequate drainage in the rice growing areas of California is quite fully appreciated by all who are associated with the industry and considerable attention has been given to the drainage of these lands in the Sacramento Valley, with the result that several drainage and reclamation districts have been organized and many miles of drains constructed. Several of these have been in operation for sufficient time to justify some conclusions as to their efficiency in providing the required relief and the making of some suggestions regarding-future work. In any general paper on drainage of rice lands a more comprehensive understanding of the situation can be obtained by the presentation of data on some of the interrelations between soils, irrigation, cultural methods and social and financial economics. 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.
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After describing the Central Valley of California the book focuses on the flood plain of the Sacramento River where most of the lands adjoining the river were a series of Mexican Land Grants. These grants were broken into private holdings after statehood and the challenging effort to reclaim the overflow lands began. The book covers the political and natural challenges in reclaiming these lands together with the introduction of a new crop, rice, and the development of new machines, primarily the Caterpillar tractor, that aided significantly in making the reclamation efforts successful.