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Title: Village Improvements and Farm Villages

Author: George E. Waring

Release Date: October 7, 2008 [EBook #26801]

Language: English

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VILLAGE IMPROVEMENTS
AND
FARM VILLAGES.

By

GEO. E. WARING, JR.

CONSULTING ENGINEER FOR SANITARY AND AGRICULTURAL
WORKS.

BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
(Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.)
1877.

COPYRIGHT, 1877,
BY GEO. E. WARING, JR.

FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, & CO.,
BOSTON.

The following papers on Village Improvements and Farm Villages are
reprinted, with some amendments, from "Scribners Monthly." These
constitute the more practical part of the book, so far as villages are
concerned.

It has, however, been judged appropriate to add to them a paper on
Eastern Farming, which originally appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly,"
and which continues the discussion of the question of village residence
as a means for mitigating some of the hardships which beset the lives of
isolated country families.

The wide-spread and growing interest in the topics considered makes it
seem worth while to give these short essays a more permanent form.

G. E. W., JR.
NEWPORT, R.I., June, 1877.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
VILLAGE IMPROVEMENTS 11

VILLAGE SANITARY WORK 69

FARM VILLAGES 114

LIFE AND WORK OF THE EASTERN FARMER 159

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
FIG. 1.--DRAINAGE OF HILL-SIDE FOOT-PATH 31

FIG. 2.--SECTION OF ROAD WITH DRAINS 44

FIG. 3.--PIPES RESTING ON THEIR SHOULDERS 73

FIG.