Draining for Profit, and Draining for HealthJudd, 1911 - 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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... - 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 .
... - 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 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 THE RECLAIMING OF SALT MARSHES , 193.
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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.