Draining for Profit, and Draining for HealthJudd, 1911 - 252 páginas |
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... greater size required for stone than for tiles , of handling the stones , of placing them properly in the ditches , and of covering them , after they are laid , with a suitable bar rier to the rattling down of loose earth among them ...
... greater size required for stone than for tiles , of handling the stones , of placing them properly in the ditches , and of covering them , after they are laid , with a suitable bar rier to the rattling down of loose earth among them ...
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... greater the shrinking , as brickmakers well know . In the great drought , 36 years ago , we saw in a very retentive " soil in the Vale of Belvoir , cracks which it was not 66 very pleasant to ride among . This very summer , on land ...
... greater the shrinking , as brickmakers well know . In the great drought , 36 years ago , we saw in a very retentive " soil in the Vale of Belvoir , cracks which it was not 66 very pleasant to ride among . This very summer , on land ...
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... greater im perviousness is correct , it will be readily seen how water , descending to the drains , by carrying these soluble and finer parts downward and distributing them more equally through the whole , should render the soil more ...
... greater im perviousness is correct , it will be readily seen how water , descending to the drains , by carrying these soluble and finer parts downward and distributing them more equally through the whole , should render the soil more ...
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... greater than this in the summer months , but this is surely enough for the purposes of illustration , as two inches of water , over an acre of land , would weigh about two hundred tons . The amount of heat required to evaporate this is ...
... greater than this in the summer months , but this is surely enough for the purposes of illustration , as two inches of water , over an acre of land , would weigh about two hundred tons . The amount of heat required to evaporate this is ...
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... greater depth in winter and thaw out ear- lier in the spring . The deep freezing has the effect to greatly pulverize the lower soil , thus better fitting it for the support of vegetation ; and the earlier thawing makes it earlier ready ...
... greater depth in winter and thaw out ear- lier in the spring . The deep freezing has the effect to greatly pulverize the lower soil , thus better fitting it for the support of vegetation ; and the earlier thawing makes it earlier ready ...
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Página 34 - Such were the effects at an early period of the year on a black bog. They suggest some idea of what they are, when in July or August thunder-rain at 60° or 70° falls on a surface heated to 130°, and carries down with it into the greedy fissures of the earth its augmented temperature. These advantages porous soils possess by nature, and retentive soils only acquire them by drainage.
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Página 65 - ... other. The obvious remedy is to destroy their united action ; to break through their line of communication. Remove your water of attraction to such a depth that evaporation cannot act upon it, or but feebly. What is that depth ? In ascertaining this point we are not altogether without data. No doubt depth diminishes the power of evaporation rapidly. Still, as water taken from a...
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Página 66 - A farmer manures a field of four or five inches of free soil reposing on a retentive clay, and sows it with wheat. It comes up, and between the kernel and the manure it looks well for a time, but anon it sickens. An Irish child looks well for five or six years, but after that time potato-feeding, and filth, and hardship begin to tell. You ask what is amiss with the wheat, and you are told that when its roots reach the clay they are poisoned.