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Title: Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health

Author: George E. Waring

Release Date: October 4, 2006 [Ebook #19465]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

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Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health

by George E. Waring

Edition 1, (October 4, 2006)

New York
Orange Judd & Company,
245 Broadway.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
ORANGE JUDD & CO.

At the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for this
Southern District of New-York.

Lovejoy & Son,
Electrotypers and Stereotypers.
15 Vandewater street N.Y.

In presenting this book to the public the writer desires to say that,
having in view the great importance of thorough work in land draining, and
believing it advisable to avoid every thing which might be construed into
an approval of half-way measures, he has purposely taken the most radical
view of the whole subject, and has endeavored to emphasize the necessity
for the utmost thoroughness in all draining operations, from the first
staking of the lines to the final filling-in of the ditches.

That it is sometimes necessary, because of limited means, or limited time,
or for other good reasons, to drain partially or imperfectly, or with a
view only to temporary results, is freely acknowledged. In these cases the
occasion for less completeness in the work must determine the extent to
which the directions herein laid down are to be disregarded; but it is
believed that, even in such cases, the principles on which those
directions are founded should be always borne in mind.

NEWPORT, R.I., 1867.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Fig. 1 - A DRY SOIL.
Fig. 2 - A WET SOIL.
Fig. 3 - A DRAINED SOIL.
Fig. 4 - MAP OF LAND, WITH SWAMPS, ROCKS