Show SIMPLE PLAN OF irrigation extensive reservoirs and expensive machinery not used in certain parts of india in india famine lias has always been a serious question to copo cope with and by means of canals and irrigation works much has been done to mitigate the effects of drought in certain districts a primitive but effectual method of irrigation still exists among tile the natives who cony convey ey water to their rice und paddy fields by a simple contrivance of their own invention it consists of tile the trunk of a tree dug out to form a kind of scoop or trough which to la attached to one end of a long pole the other end of the polo pole Is weighted with lumps of earth and the whole Is balanced at the center on an upright so as to form a lover lever tho the irrigator Irrl gator dips the trough into tho water and on releasing ills his hold the tha weights at the other end of tho the pole pola cause the water to run down the trough into a well dug in the ground the supply la Is then distributed by means of channels this performance Is carried on in duplicate one trough taking in water and the other discharging iti it popular mechanics |