Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume III
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 407
UDK: 600 eng- gl
With 424 Illustrations, Maps, and Diagrams
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THE GREAT IRRIGATION WORKS OF INDIA.
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portion of the fields could be planted at all.
A few months later this engineer had to ride
over those lands north of the river to try to
find work for the people. For more than 100
miles he passed through fields which shoüld
mostly have been bearing ric© crops—as in a
A GANG OF PROFESSIONAL STONE CARRIERS.
Their wages are so low (10 to 16 cents a day) that mechanical handling plants cannot compete here with manual labour.
sense many of them were. In thousands of
fields there was a plant here and there—per-
haps two or three to the square yard—bear-
ing an ear. In that ear there might be four
or five grains, instead of forty. A great many
of the fields were given over to the cattle as