Draining for Profit, and Draining for HealthOrange Judd Company, 1902 - 252 páginas |
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... MARSHES . Extent of marshes on the Atlantic Coast . - The English Fens .-- Har- laem Lake . - The exclusion of sea water . - Removal of the causes of in- undation from the upland . - Removal of rain - fall and water of filtration ...
... MARSHES . Extent of marshes on the Atlantic Coast . - The English Fens .-- Har- laem Lake . - The exclusion of sea water . - Removal of the causes of in- undation from the upland . - Removal of rain - fall and water of filtration ...
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... competi- tion is so active that there are few farmers so situated that they cannot buy good draining tiles cheaper than they can make them . CHAPTER IX . THE RECLAIMING OF SALT MARSHES . " 190 DRAINING FOR PROFIT AND HEALTH .
... competi- tion is so active that there are few farmers so situated that they cannot buy good draining tiles cheaper than they can make them . CHAPTER IX . THE RECLAIMING OF SALT MARSHES . " 190 DRAINING FOR PROFIT AND HEALTH .
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... marsh which form so large a part of our Atlantic coast , from Maine to Florida . Hundreds of thousands of acres that might be cheaply reclaimed , and made our most valuable and most salubri ous lands , are abandoned to the inroads of ...
... marsh which form so large a part of our Atlantic coast , from Maine to Florida . Hundreds of thousands of acres that might be cheaply reclaimed , and made our most valuable and most salubri ous lands , are abandoned to the inroads of ...
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... marsh produces . The inherent wealth of the land is locked up , and all of its bad effects are produced , by the ... marshes were formed may be understood from the following account of the " Great Level of the Fens " of the eastern 192 ...
... marsh produces . The inherent wealth of the land is locked up , and all of its bad effects are produced , by the ... marshes were formed may be understood from the following account of the " Great Level of the Fens " of the eastern 192 ...
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... tools found at " Skirbeck Shoals , near Boston , buried with silt sixteen feet " deep , show what an astonishing quantity of sediment " formerly choked up the mouths of these great rivers 9 THE RECLAIMING OF SALT MARSHES . 193.
... tools found at " Skirbeck Shoals , near Boston , buried with silt sixteen feet " deep , show what an astonishing quantity of sediment " formerly choked up the mouths of these great rivers 9 THE RECLAIMING OF SALT MARSHES . 193.
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accumulated acre agricultural allow basin bottom brick bushels carried cause Central Park cents chapter clay collars commenced condition connection considerable contour lines cost course covered crop cultivation deposit depth discharge diseases distance ditch drainage dyke earth effect evaporation fall farm farmer feet deep fever field fifth column filled flow foot four feet Gisborne grade ground Hackensack River heat heavy rain houses improvement inches joints kiln labor laid land lateral drains laying length less lower main drain malarious manure marsh matters moisture muddy water nearly necessary obstruction operation outlet particles pipes placed plants plow porous practice prevent quantity rain-fall removed result roots salt marsh saturated season sewage sewers shown in Fig side silt silt-basin slope soakage spring stakes steepest descent stone subsoil sufficient surface tide tile tile-draining tion typhoid fever undrained upper end vegetable whole width