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"Wallace" wrote:

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"MNRebecca" wrote in message

But would there
have been ditches WITHOUT such bridges in the first place? How did
you get the water out of the ditch and onto the field without the
bridge/pump system?

Of course there would have been. Watering can be moved out of the ditch
by hand very easily using a simple syphon method and that is common enough
even today. See pic on this cite:
http://www.pump-zone.com/piping/pipi...effect-that-su
cking-sound.html


only if you turn the whole world on its head. Siphoning from a lower to a
higher point sounds like a perpetual motion machine. Are you trolling?

You are obviously in misc.rural, FarmI has been posting in rec.gardens
for many years and is a valuable source of information to us.
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