Intergovernmentalizing the Classroom: Federal Involvement in Elementary and Secondary Education

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... of cultivated or cultivable land per head of population. Irrigation is carried on by--1. Natural flow (moke); 2. Water raised by Persian wheels ( charkee ); 3. Eain ( baranee ). The principal crops are rice, cotton, jowaree, bajaree, till, (oilseed); and these are grown in the Khureef season, from May to October, when the Indus is in flood. Gram, wheat, barley, oilseeds are grown from November to May, principally on land that has been flooded during the inundation-season. A good deal of sugar-cane is grown in Lower Sind, but only on the banks of the Indus or perennial canals, as it requires plenty of water for eight months. The irrigable area of Sind, about 14,222 square miles, lies between the Indus and the rocky hills on the west bank, and on the east, as far as the sand-hills to the north, and the desert and salt plains to the south. This area is intersected with a network of canals, considerably over 5,000 miles in aggregate length; these canals, with few exceptions, existed before the conquest of Sind. As the revenue of the country, and the welfare of the people depend on them, it is of the utmost importance that they should be improved as far as possible, and maintained in an efficient state. The whole of the plains of Sind have been formed by alluvial deposit of the Indus, the old course of which can now be traced by the numerous depressions that exist all over the country. Many years ago the Indus used to divide into two branches below Tatta, that to the west being called the Buggaur, and that to the east, about 20 miles further down the river, the Suttah. The Buggaur threw off large navigable branches, but these are now irrigation canals only, and would become completely silted up but for the...