Excerpt from Report on Drainage Investigations, 1903The best practical methods of applying the necessary quantity of water to soils which are'deficient in moisture, and of draining them when the supply of water from any source becomes too great, are of vital interest to every cultivator. The object of the drainage work which the Office of Experiment Stations has undertaken in connection with its irrigation investigation is to study these methods and their efficiency under various conditions, to examine lands needing drainage, and to give advice as to their reclamation. Such aid has been given where the work involved was fairly representative of a general class of conditions afiecti11g the reclamation and development of land. What has been done along this line during the past year is herein out lined, with the deductions and results brie¿y discussed. Actual field and local conditions have been dealt with direct. Business, engineer ing, and practical phases of various problems have been considered and will continue to receive marked attention in future investigations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.