Draining for Profit, and Draining for HealthJudd, 1911 - 252 páginas |
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... inches of the surface , and are too subject to the action of the sun's heat ; in harvest time , bad weather may delay the gathering until the crop is greatly injured , and fall and spring work must often be put off because of wet . The ...
... inches of the surface , and are too subject to the action of the sun's heat ; in harvest time , bad weather may delay the gathering until the crop is greatly injured , and fall and spring work must often be put off because of wet . The ...
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... —is within a few inches of the surface , preventing the natural descent of roots , and , by reason of the small space to re- ceive fresh rains , causing an interruption of work for 22 DRAINING FOR PROFIT AND HEALTH .
... —is within a few inches of the surface , preventing the natural descent of roots , and , by reason of the small space to re- ceive fresh rains , causing an interruption of work for 22 DRAINING FOR PROFIT AND HEALTH .
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... inches of drained soil contains free space enough to receive a rain - fall one inch in depth , and , by the same token , four feet of drained soil can receive twelve inches of rain , -more than is known ever to have fallen in twenty ...
... inches of drained soil contains free space enough to receive a rain - fall one inch in depth , and , by the same token , four feet of drained soil can receive twelve inches of rain , -more than is known ever to have fallen in twenty ...
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... inch drains across the hill , and , without ever " reading a word , or , we believe , conversing with any one " on the subject , poked his way , step by step , to four or " five feet drains , in the line of steepest descent . Showing us ...
... inch drains across the hill , and , without ever " reading a word , or , we believe , conversing with any one " on the subject , poked his way , step by step , to four or " five feet drains , in the line of steepest descent . Showing us ...
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... inches in depth . If we consider , in addition to this , the amount of water drained away , we shall see that the soil has sufficient capacity for the reception of all the rain wa- ter that falls upon it . In connection with the ...
... inches in depth . If we consider , in addition to this , the amount of water drained away , we shall see that the soil has sufficient capacity for the reception of all the rain wa- ter that falls upon it . In connection with the ...
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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.