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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

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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;

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.

"The first Farmer was the first man, and all nobility rests on the
possession and use of land."--EMERSON.

NEW YORK:
C. M. SAXTON, BARKER & CO.,
AGRICULTURAL BOOK PUBLISHERS, No. 25 PARK ROW
1860.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,
BY HENRY F. FRENCH,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and
for the Southern District of New York.

TO
The Honorable Simon Brown,
of MASSACHUSETTS,
A LOVER OF AGRICULTURE, AND A PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
WHOSE WORDS AND WORKS ARE SO WELL DEVOTED TO IMPROVE THE CONDITION
OF THOSE WHO CULTIVATE THE EARTH,
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, AS A TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT AND PERSONAL ESTEEM,
BY HIS FRIEND AND BROTHER,
THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

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