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... kiln which may be cheaply built , and which will answer an excellent purpose , where only 100,000 or 200,000 tiles per season will be required . Directions for its construction are set forth in a letter from Mr. T. Law Hodges , of ...
... kiln which may be cheaply built , and which will answer an excellent purpose , where only 100,000 or 200,000 tiles per season will be required . Directions for its construction are set forth in a letter from Mr. T. Law Hodges , of ...
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... kiln of these " dimensions will contain 32,500 14 - inch tiles , " or 12,000 24 - inch tiles . * " In good weather , this kiln can be filled , burnt , and " discharged once in every fortnight , and fifteen kilns may be obtained in a ...
... kiln of these " dimensions will contain 32,500 14 - inch tiles , " or 12,000 24 - inch tiles . * " In good weather , this kiln can be filled , burnt , and " discharged once in every fortnight , and fifteen kilns may be obtained in a ...
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... kiln , all complete , at less than $ 25 . Concerning its value , he wrote another letter in 1848 , from which the ... kiln as unworthy " of attention . How far their expectations have been real- " ized , and what value belongs to their ...
... kiln , all complete , at less than $ 25 . Concerning its value , he wrote another letter in 1848 , from which the ... kiln as unworthy " of attention . How far their expectations have been real- " ized , and what value belongs to their ...
Página 186
George Edwin Waring. " enden , where this kiln stands , expresses himself strongly " in favor of this kiln , as always producing better and " more evenly burned pipes than either of his larger and " better built brick - kilns can do ...
George Edwin Waring. " enden , where this kiln stands , expresses himself strongly " in favor of this kiln , as always producing better and " more evenly burned pipes than either of his larger and " better built brick - kilns can do ...
Página 187
... kiln in the position which they occupied at the first burning , and the second heat will probably prove suffi- cient . There is less danger of unequal burning in circu- lar than in square kilns . Soft wood is better than hard , as ...
... kiln in the position which they occupied at the first burning , and the second heat will probably prove suffi- cient . There is less danger of unequal burning in circu- lar than in square kilns . Soft wood is better than hard , as ...
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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.