Chicago : Engineering and Contracting Pub. Co. · leaf 598
were native born. Of the eight-tenthsof 1 per cent of foreign born, 75 per cent wereChinese and 15 per cent were born in theUnited States. This makes it very difficult to raise crops inthe dry season and the uncertainty of the endof the rainy season often brings about a par-tial loss of rainy… … Fig. 3- -Spanish Irrigation Dam, PhilippineIslands. ing and runs the crop over into the dry seasonwith a very considerable loss in the cropWith controlled irrigation two crops can begrown each year with very little loss from in-sects. Beyond a doubt irrigation has been prac-ticed in the islands for…
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