. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. is a sluice (0 erected at the end of one of tinadjoining (/), that being the highest ground. small mains, to force the water into the branch trench : 11 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. U40 / viy complete piece qf irrigation ) was formed for the Duke of Bedford, by Smith, atPrUtlcy. The water is supplied from a brook a , to a main feeder,

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. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. is a sluice (0 erected at the end of one of tinadjoining (/), that being the highest ground. small mains, to force the water into the branch trench : 11 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. U40 / viy complete piece qf irrigation ) was formed for the Duke of Bedford, by Smith, atPrUtlcy. The water is supplied from a brook a , to a main feeder, with various ramifications (ft, b); the 6i6. surface is formed into ridges (c, c), over which the water flows, and is carried off by the drains in theirfurrows [d, <l , to the main drains O, e), and to the brook at different places (/. /). There are bridges(g over the main feeders, small arches over the main discharging drains (A), and three hatches (i).4441. As on example of catch-work watering, we may refer to a case {fig. 687.), given in a recent work iii^ ^j j_imil/Jiy^^^»jjji^i/j

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