Farm drainage - The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land - with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially - with Tiles

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Farm drainage, by Henry Flagg French This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Author: Henry Flagg French Release Date: November 10, 2007 [EBook #23435] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FARM DRAINAGE *** Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Constanze Hofmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University) Transcriber's Note: A number of typographical errors have been corrected. They are shown in the text with mouse- hover popups. FARM DRAINAGE. THE PRINCIPLES, PROCESSES, AND EFFECTS OF DRAINING LAND WITH STONES, WOOD, PLOWS, AND OPEN DITCHES, AND ESPECIALLY WITH TILES; INCLUDING TABLES OF RAIN-FALL, EVAPORATION, FILTRATION, EXCAVATION, CAPACITY OF PIPES; COST AND NUMBER TO THE ACRE, OF TILES, &C., &C., AND MORE THAN 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. BY HENRY F. FRENCH. "Read, not to contradict and to confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider."—Bacon.