Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health

by George E. Waring

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Author: Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898
Language: English
LoC Class: TC: Technology: Ocean engineering
Subject: Drain-tiles
Category: Text
eBook-No.: 19465
Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19465
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Copyright: Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1.Illustrations — Contents — CHAPTER I. - LAND TO BE DRAINED AND THE REASONS WHY. — CHAPTER II. - HOW DRAINS ACT, AND HOW THEY AFFECT THE SOIL — CHAPTER III. - HOW TO GO TO WORK TO LAY OUT A SYSTEM OF DRAINS. — CHAPTER IV. - HOW TO MAKE THE DRAINS. — CHAPTER V. - HOW TO TAKE CARE OF DRAINS AND DRAINED LAND. — CHAPTER VI. - WHAT DRAINING COSTS. — CHAPTER VII. - "WILL IT PAY?" — CHAPTER VIII. - HOW TO MAKE DRAINING TILES. — CHAPTER IX. - THE RECLAIMING OF SALT MARSHES. — CHAPTER X. - MALARIAL DISEASES. — CHAPTER XI. - HOUSE DRAINAGE AND TOWN SEWERAGE IN THEIR RELATIONS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH. — INDEX — DRAINING ENGINEERING. — THE SMALL FRUIT CULTURIST. — THE GRAPE CULTURIST — AMERICAN POMOLOGY — GARDENING FOR PROFIT — The American Agricultural Annual — The American Horticultural Annual — Footnotes

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