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Lettering: Chinese farmers' ingenious method of irrigation. Where better mechanical appliances are not available a shallow vessel with ropes attached to each side is used to scoop up water from a running stream. Two men swing the pail so that it skims just under the surface of the stream, is brought up nearly full, and emptied with a jerking motion into the channel. This process is repeated with surprising rapidity and smoothness.
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Lettering: Chinese farmers' ingenious method of irrigation.
Where better mechanical appliances are not available a shallow vessel with ropes attached to each side is used to scoop up water from a running stream.
Two men swing the pail so that it skims just under the surface of the stream, is brought up nearly full, and emptied with a jerking motion into the channel.
This process is repeated with surprising rapidity and smoothness.
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