This makes it necessary to wash the land free from the deadly white crystals by means of tile ditches and flooding. By means of this machine a ditch eight feet deep can be dug and the tile laid in it at one operation. The total cost of tiling and filling in costs about six dollars an acre. Lands that were not worth fencing are made extremely valuable by the ditcher and a little water. In the Pecos Valley there are a number of farms that are almost worthless because of the alkali on them. These are being tiled and washed and next spring will be worth from $300 an acre up. INDIAN PLOUGHING SCENE THE picture below depicts a spring scene in India, and shows the natives ploughing the flooded rice fields of the East with their open-yoked ploughs. As will be observed this space of ground is artificially flooded. The result is that two and sometimes three crops of rice are obtained in a single year. BLOWING UP A CARGO OF DYNAMITE OFF YARMOUTH, ENGLAND. |