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Updated: May 1, 2025
The fields of Egypt are more regularly watered than those of any other country bordering on the Mediterranean, except the rice-grounds in Italy, and perhaps the marcite or winter meadows of Lombardy; but irrigation is more or less employed throughout almost the entire basin of that sea, and is everywhere attended with effects which, if less in degree, are analogous in character, to those resulting from it in Egypt.
As near as can be ascertained, the amount of water applied to irrigated lands is scarcely anywhere less than the total precipitation during the season of vegetable growth, and in general it much exceeds that quantity. But in Lombardy, water in applied to some crops during a longer period than one hundred days; and in the marcite it flows over the ground even in winter.
The temperature of the water is thought even more important than its composition. The sources which irrigate the marcite of Lombardy meadows so fertile that less than an acre furnishes grass for a cow the whole year are very warm. The ground watered by them never freezes, and a first crop, for soiling, is cut from it in January or February.
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