Farm Drainage: The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles |
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acre Agricultural bottom bricks cellar clay cold convenient crops cultivation Deanston deep drains Denton depth discharge distance drained land drainers drought earth effect Elkington England estimate evaporation expense experiments fall farm farmer field filled flow foot four feet deep four-foot drain freshets frost Gisborne give gravel greater ground half heat impervious inches labor laid laying less Lord Berners lower manure minor drains mode moisture natural observed obstruction open ditch operation Orrington outfall outlet particles pass peat plants pond porous portion practical quantity of water rain rain-fall rivers roots round pipes sand saturated says Scotland season Seneca County slope soil spade springs stagnant water strata stratum streams subsoil plow sufficient Summer surface surplus water swamp temperature thermometer Thomas Arkell thorough-drainage three feet tile drains tion trench two-inch pipe undrained usually vegetation whole width