. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . ■■Qi4\ 228 i)i:VL:L()PMENT. of ; stones and l^jards in making nnderdrains. Underdraining peaty lands.—Instead of tiles laid in the bottom of the ditch in peaty soils, continnous bundles of crooked hardwood ])o]cs are sometimes so laid that thewater can passamong the mand thus runoff. See F
. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . ■■Qi4\ 228 i)i:VL:L()PMENT. of ; stones and l^jards in making nnderdrains. Underdraining peaty lands.—Instead of tiles laid in the bottom of the ditch in peaty soils, continnous bundles of crooked hardwood ])o]cs are sometimes so laid that thewater can passamong the mand thus runoff. See Figures133 and 134. Kisuie l:!l. ]>iaiiis made by laving Huoi- stunis iu bottuni \\ hcrC t h C S 6of the ditch, and covering either by laying cover stone on wall stone, as at A, by leaning two stones together, as at B, or by draillS aiC laidconstructing an arch of small stones, as at C. in peaty landscovered with heather, or with other low shrubs, smallwoody plants can be used to place first over the bundlesof poles thus preventing the rotted peat, with which theremainder of the ditch is filled, from sifting down amongthe poles andclogging t h edrain. Tn manycases the tilesmay be laid atsufficient dei)thto be in thehard groundl:)eneath thepeat. Dikes, pumpsand gate s.— As our lands become more ^•aluable the recla
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