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Show Pittman: Alkeli Soils of Iran 99 land, and because drainage by any means would be inordinately expensive, it has not been attempted to reclaim these areas by the method Instead, of drainage. rice culture as developed es pecially by Mackenzie Taylor, Puri, and Mehta and others in ... ... the Punjab is being tried. Mackenzie Taylor and his co-workers have developed the theory that where there is no water-table, if salt can be washed to below a depth of 10 feet in the soil by rice culture or similar flooding practice with hydrophytic plants the salt can never again come to the surface by capillary action and permanent reclamation will have been achieved. While some might question this theory and think that the salt may have actually been removed by diffusion upwards into the fresh water which flows slowly through the rice, still there seems no doubt that good reclamation has been achieved by the workers in the Punjab over extensive areas which has lasted for several years, and it is hoped the method may be equally in ... successful Iran., |
