The Strawberry Valley Irrigation Project Utah Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Irrigation of the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah Irrigation compels the adoption of the small farm unit. This is the gem of its new Social possibilities. During the first and second eras of colonization in this country, the favorite size of a farm was about four hundred acres, of which from a fourth to a half was gradually cleared and the rest retained in woodland. The Mississippi valley was settled mostly in quarter-sections, contain - ing one hundred and sixty acres each. The productive capacitv of land is so largely increased by irrigation, and the amount which one family can cultivate by its own labor consequently so much reduced, that the small farm unit is a practical necessity in the arid region. Where settlement has been carried out upon the most enlightened lines irrigated farms range from five to twenty acres, rarely exceeding forth acres at the maximum. 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.