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Show I Growth of Irrigation Systems. I The growth of irrigation systems throughout the world has been a remarkable re-markable feature of tbe agricultural progress of the ninetf-enth c-ntury. says a writer in the National MaD-zine. MaD-zine. The great Assouan dam across the upper Nile has added myriads of acres to the fertilized art a of F.L'ypt ; France has sown the northern Sahara with oases, made teaut ifui and fruitful fruit-ful by artesian weiis; I'.ritish India is dotted h'-re and there by public works, which store up the floods of the r-criodical rains, against the scorching drought of midsummer, and besides millions invested by r-orper,-!-tions and private citizens, the I'nit'd G'.'it-'S government lias constru'-lr-'! some splendid irrigation sy.-t.-ms in I what have been consid'-r-d irr '-iaii.-. ahe deserts |