Agricultural Nevada (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Agricultural Nevada<br><br>A State where no special attention until recently has been paid to its agricultural resources; desolate and unpropitious when viewed from the car windows of the transcontinental trains which traverse little of its farming sections; and for fifty years given over to mining as its paramount industry, with stock-raising second and farming third in the industrial list; with a preconceived opinion in the minds of the public that, generally speaking, it is as hopeless of transformation into fields of husbandry as are the tablelands of central Asia, or the Desert of Sahara - Nevada is somewhat handicapped in its appeal to homeseekers in that conditions are not what they are understood to be and that this great inland empire has its own marvelous agricultural destiny.<br><br>Progress of Agriculture and Irrigation.<br><br>But we have been making progress the last few decades, and very much so in agriculture and irrigation. In keeping with this advance, economic pressure is constantly crowding the surplus population of the country into every opening and available field of opportunity. Necessity - that wise old mother of invention - has the comfortable faculty about the time we are apparently up against a stone wall to disclose that the wall is not an obstacle after all, but is capable of being turned to very excellent advantage.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.