Irrigation And Related Cultural Practices With Cotton In The Salt River Valley Of Arizona Classic Reprint

Download or read book Irrigation and Related Cultural Practices with Cotton in the Salt River Valley of Arizona (Classic Reprint) written by Stephen Harold Hastings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Irrigation and Related Cultural Practices With Cotton in the Salt River Valley of Arizona The climate Of that section Of southern Arizona represented by the Salt River Valley is characterized by light rainfall, relatively high summer temperatures, low humidity, and mild winters. Meteor ological records kept by the United States Weather Bureau at Phoenix since 1895 show that the mean annual precipitation for the 34-year period from 1895 to 1928, inclusive, has been inches. Since this is distributed over 12 months and much of it in the form of light showers, it has little importance in crop production. The average date of the last Spring frost is given as February 10 and that Of the first frost in the fall as December 4, with a frost free season of 296 days. This is somewhat longer than the actual growing season for much Of the cultivated land. 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.