Practical Hints on Land Draining
Author : Charles Newman
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Drainage
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Author : Charles Newman
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Drainage
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Author : Charles NEWMAN (M.R.A.S.)
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture. Library
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Agriculture
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Author : John MORTON (F.G.S.)
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : A. D. M. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1989-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521364447
Underdraining has been recognized as one of the major capital-intensive agricultural improvements of the nineteenth century. Over half the agricultural area of England is subject to waterlogging and is in need of some form of underdraining, rendering the improvement both technically and economically basic to much of English agriculture. By removing excess soil water, the object of underdraining was to reproduce as far as possible the conditions of free-draining land, which was workable all year round, and to create an optimum soil-moisture content for both plant growth and cultivation. Despite the necessity for the improvement, a wide-ranging debate exists in the literature on the extent, effectiveness and agricultural importance of underdraining in the nineteenth century. The present study attempts to resolve this debate. By examining the evidence of draining loans under the Public Money Draining Acts and of the various land improvement companies and the accounts of estates in Devon, Northamptonshire and Northumberland, a precise record has been provided for the, first of the spread of underdraining in England in the nineteenth century, of the factors involved in its adoption and of its impact on agricultural practice in that period.
Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
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Page : 936 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Industrial arts
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Author : Sir John William Dawson
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : John Donaldson
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1854
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Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Agriculture
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