Draining for Profit, and Draining for HealthJudd, 1911 - 252 páginas |
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... cultivation , which fairly earn a secure return , there is added the anxiety of chance ; success is greatly dependent on the weather , and the weather may be bad . Heavy rains , after planting , may cause the seed to rot in the ground ...
... cultivation , which fairly earn a secure return , there is added the anxiety of chance ; success is greatly dependent on the weather , and the weather may be bad . Heavy rains , after planting , may cause the seed to rot in the ground ...
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... cultivation , and bad luck will often play sad havoc with the year's accounts . Land of this character is usually kept in grass , as long as it will bring paying crops , and is , not unfrequently , only available for pasture ; but ...
... cultivation , and bad luck will often play sad havoc with the year's accounts . Land of this character is usually kept in grass , as long as it will bring paying crops , and is , not unfrequently , only available for pasture ; but ...
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... cultivation , and in a condition for steady growth , within a short time after the rain ceases . It has been estimated that a drained soil has room between its particles for about one quarter of its bulk of water ; that is , four inches ...
... cultivation , and in a condition for steady growth , within a short time after the rain ceases . It has been estimated that a drained soil has room between its particles for about one quarter of its bulk of water ; that is , four inches ...
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... cultivation , the surface should be kept loose and open , ready to receive all of the rain and irrigation water that reaches it . In descending through the soil , this water , in summer , gives up heat which it received from the air and ...
... cultivation , the surface should be kept loose and open , ready to receive all of the rain and irrigation water that reaches it . In descending through the soil , this water , in summer , gives up heat which it received from the air and ...
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... cultivation will always be much more laborious , more hur- ried , and less complete , than if it were well drained . The foregoing general statements , concerning the action of water in drained , and in undrained land , and of the ...
... cultivation will always be much more laborious , more hur- ried , and less complete , than if it were well drained . The foregoing general statements , concerning the action of water in drained , and in undrained land , and of the ...
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acre agricultural amount basin bottom brick bushels carried cause 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 fiber crops field fifth column filled flow foot four feet Gisborne grade ground Hackensack River heat heavy rain houses improvement inches joints kiln labor laid land 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
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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...
Página 252 - ... the handling and marketing of celery in carload lots. Fully illustrated. 150 pages. 5x7 inches. Cloth $0.50 Tomato Culture By WILL W. TRACY. The author has rounded up in this book the most complete account of tomato culture in all its phases that has ever been gotten together. It is no...
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.