rvoirs; 341, 343
Ridge and furrow; 195
Rolling pipes; 205, 380
Roots, length of; 258, 259, 283
" obstruction by; 315, 316, 379
Round pipes; 47, 122
Rumford, Count; 272, 273, 287
Ruffin, Edmund, Esq.; 29, 364
Rye and Derwent; 344
Saturation; 66
Scoops; 244
Screens at outlets; 183
Season lengthened; 261
Shallow drains; 168
Shanghae plow; 109
Shedd and Edson; 21, 51, 372
Shoulder drain; 110
Shovels; 236, 237
Silt basin; 186, 379
Sinkholes; 198
Size of tiles; 190, 201, 377
Smith, of Deanston; 26, 37
Snow, fall of; 59
Sole-tile; 125
Spades; 235, 236, 240-242
Spirit level; 230
Springs; 78-83
" drainage of; 34
" run before rain; 270-271
" how to preserve; 189
Staff and target; 231
Stagnant water; 93
Stone drains; 114-119, 377
" cost of; 114, 222
Stones above tiles; 118
Streams affected by drainage; 333-340
Subsoil plow; 169
Subsoiler, Marcus and Co.'s; 107
Surface washing prevented; 261
Swallow-holes; 197, 198
Swamps; 91, 360
" drainage of; 360-363
Swamp-lands; 17
Swan, R. J.; 168
System, importance of; 160, 173
Tables of evaporation; 72, 73
" excavation; 216
" filtration; 70, 71
" rain-fall; 53-59, 71-73
" of tiles to acre; 220
" number of rods; 220
" capacity of pipes; 135-138
Talpa; 23
Temperature; 67, 189, 280, 287-300
" underground; 187, 288, 291
" for vegetation; 271
Thermometer, wet and dry; 64, 65
Thomas, J. J.; 229
Tile-drainage; 120
Tiles, cost in England; 201, 212
" " United States; 201-205
" forms of; 122-130
" length of; 221
" size of; 130-138
" weight of; 219
" number to the acre; 220
Tile machines; 46, 202-210
Tile-works; 47, 121
Tools; 225-246
Tops and bottoms; 140, 319, 379
Traps; 185, 186, 379, 380
Velocity of water; 131
Vermin; 104
Virginia; 18, 364
Warder, Doctor; 346
Water, how it enters; 138, 314, 320
" stagnant; 93
" of drainage, uses of; 189, 339
" velocity of; 131
Water passage; 129
Water-line; 51, 139
Water-powers; 333, 335, 341-345
Water of pressure; 84, 161
Water, pressure of; 84, 140, 141
" rights in; 85, 86
Wedge drain; 110, 236
Weight of tiles; 219, 381
Wells, drainage into; 197-199
" dried by drains; 85, 366
Well and relief-pipe; 184-186
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