Irrigation (Proceedings of a Meeting of Sugar Planters, Held at Central Fajardo, August 15, 1912) (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Irrigation (Proceedings of a Meeting of Sugar Planters, Held at Central Fajardo, August 15, 1912) The papers which are herewith published were prepared for presentation at meetings of sugar planters called at Central Fajardo on August the 15th and at Arecibo on August the 25th. The meeting at Fajardo was well attended and the interest shown in the proceedings by all those present was an indication of the importance of the subject chosen for discussion. As will be seen by reading these reports, there has been an almost unprecedented drouth in many parts of the island which in some parts began last year and with but few exceptions has continued until the present time. The object of the meetings was to confer with the planters and discuss the possibility and practicability of installing cheap but efficient irrigation plants that would assist in the future in diminishing the disastrous effects of drouths. The Commissioner of the Interior recognized the importance of the matter and at our request sent Mr. W. W. Schlecht, a practical irrigation engineer of the Irrigation Service, to Fajardo to look over the situation and be present at the conference. At the same time it was considered a very opportune occasion to discuss the methods of conserving soil moisture by methods of preparation and cultivation of the soil as it is believed that proper methods of cultivation will tend greatly to mitigate the bad effects of seasons of drouth. The statistics of rainfall do not extend over a period sufficiently long to enable one to speak with confidence, and yet a careful consideration of all data available leads one to believe that in many places drouths are of frequent recurrence, so frequent as to make irrigation and moisture conservation of great practical importance. My own impression is that so much attention has been paid to the drainage of cultivated fields, (in fact the systems of preparation of the land and planting seem to be with that chief end in view) that the planters have forgotten that as much harm may be done to cane by having too little water as by having too much. Unfortunately no meeting was held at Arecibo, owing to the fact that preparations for a meeting place were not made until it was too late. The Experiment Station has been very desirous of getting the people generally interested in holding meetings and discussing with them practical plantation problems. There are some subjects of a more or less scientific aspect, such as injurious insects and cane diseases, fertilization, etc., in the discussion of which the staff of this Station should be leaders and teachers, but there are many practical details of plantation work and plantation problems that the planters alone understand. There is such a close relation between the scientific and practical aspects of these subjects that meetings of all parties should result in much mutual benefit. 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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