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Excerpt from Irrigation in the North Atlantic States The use of wells as a source of irrigation is quite limited, and throughout the East the absence of windmills is particularly notice able. The cost of well boring is considerably higher than in the South and West. Many farmers near the large cities use city water for irrigation, since, if the farm is small and the use of water is limited, it is thought to be cheaper than pumping. The usual cost of such water is $1 to per cubic feet, or $44 to $65 per acre - foot - a price which would certainly seem prohibitive to western irrigators, some of whom pay less than 1 per cent of these costs, and even where pumping is practiced, as in Santa Clara Valley, California, the average cost of raising water 65 feet is only per acre - foot, or 10 per cent of the above price. The success of irrigation under the conditions found in the East is due not to cheap water supply, but to the high value of crops grown and the careful distribution of the small quantity of water used. 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.