Farm drainage: The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with TilesFrench, Henry F. (Henry Flagg)
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Farm drainage: The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
French, Henry F. (Henry Flagg)
Drainage
DEPTH OF DRAINS.--Greatly Increases Cost.--Shallow Drains first
tried in England.--10,000 Miles of Shallow Drains laid in Scotland
by way of Education.--Drains must be below Subsoil plow, and
Frost.--Effect of Frost on Tiles and Aqueducts.
CHAPTER VIII.
ARRANGEMENT OF DRAINS.
Necessity of System.--What Fall is Necessary.--American
Examples.--Outlets.--Wells and Relief-Pipes.--Peep-holes.--How to
secure Outlets.--Gate to Exclude Back-Water.--Gratings and Screens
to keep out Frogs, Snakes, Moles, &c.--Mains, Submains, and Minors,
how placed.--Capacity of Pipes.--Mains of Two Tiles.--Junction of
Drains.--Effect of Curves and Angles on Currents.--Branch
Pipes.--Draining into Wells or Swallow Holes.--Letter from Mr.
Denton.
CHAPTER IX.
THE COST OF TILES--TILE MACHINES.
Prices far too high; Albany prices.--Length of Tiles.--Cost in
Suffolk Co., England.--Waller's Machine.--Williams' Machine.--Cost
of Tiles compared with Bricks.--Mr. Denton's Estimate of
Cost.--Other Estimates.--Two-inch Tiles can be Made as Cheaply as
Bricks.--Process of Rolling Tiles.--Tile Machines.--Descriptions of
Daines'.--Pratt & Bro.'s.
CHAPTER X.
THE COST OF DRAINAGE.
Draining no more expensive than Fencing.--Engineering.--Guessing
not accurate enough.--Slight Fall sufficient.--Instances.--Two
Inches to One-Thousand Feet.--Cost of Excavation and
Filling.--Narrow Tools required.--Tables of Cubic contents of
Drains.--Cost of Drains on our own Farm.--Cost of Tiles.--Weight
and Freight of Tiles.--Cost of Outlets.--Cost of Collars.--Smaller
Tiles used with Collars.--Number of Tiles to the Acre, with
Tables.--Length of Tiles varies.--Number of Rods to the Acre at
different Distances.--Final Estimate of Cost.--Comparative Cost of
Tile-Drains and Stone-Drains.
CHAPTER XI.
DRAINING IMPLEMENTS.
Unreasonable Expectations about Draining Tools.--Levelling
Instruments.--Guessing not Accurate.--Level by a Square.--Spirit
Level.--Span, or A Level.--Grading by
Lines.--Boning-rod.--Challoner's Drain Level.--Spades and
Shovels.--Long-handled Shovel.--Irish Spade, description and
cut.--Bottoming Tools.--Narrow Spades.--English Bottoming
Tools.--Pipe-layer.--Pipe-laying Illustrated.--Pick-axes.--Drain
Gauge.--Drain Plows, and Ditch-Diggers.--Fowler's Drain
Plow.--Pratt's Ditch-Digger.--McEwan's Drain Plow.--Routt's Drain
Plow.
CHAPTER XII.
PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR OPENING DRAINS AND LAYING TILES.
Begin at the Outlet.--Use of Plows.--Leveling the Bottom.--Where to
begin to lay Pipes.--Mode of Procedure.--Covering Pipes.--Securing
Joints.--Filling.--Securing Outlets.--Plans.
CHAPTER XIII.
EFFECTS OF DRAINAGE UPON THE CONDITION OF THE SOIL.
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