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Farm drainage

Henry F. French

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Wet, sour land yields little until the water has somewhere to go. Henry French traces the whole art of farm drainage from Elkington's system through the Deanston method of frequent tiling. A thorough historical and practical treatise on draining fields. Turn a soggy, useless acre into your most productive ground.

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100 chapters

  1. 1FARM DRAINAGE.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5FARM DRAINAGE.
  6. 6CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
  7. 7CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF THE ART OF DRAINING.
  8. 8ELKINGTON'S SYSTEM OF DRAINAGE.
  9. 9DRAINAGE OF SPRINGS.
  10. 10THE DEANSTON SYSTEM; OR, FREQUENT DRAINAGE.
  11. 11VIEWS OF MR. PARKES.
  12. 12THE KEYTHORPE SYSTEM.
  13. 13THE WHARNCLIFFE SYSTEM.
  14. 14CHAPTER III RAIN, EVAPORATION, AND FILTRATION.
  15. 15CHAPTER IV DRAINAGE OF HIGH LANDS—WHAT LANDS REQUIRE DRAINAGE.
  16. 16THE SOURCES OF MOISTURE.
  17. 17THE WATER OF PRESSURE.
  18. 18WHAT LANDS REQUIRE DRAINAGE?

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