. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 710 tractice of agriculture. Part III. 4296. Pipe drains of turf are sometimes formed where the surface soil is a strong
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 710 tractice of agriculture. Part III. 4296. Pipe drains of turf are sometimes formed where the surface soil is a strong clay, as it is only turves from such a surface that are sufficiently durable. A semicylindrical ypade ijig. 655. a) is 655 used to dig the turves, the ground-plan of which (i) presents a series of semicircles or half pipes. The drain (c) being dug out to the proper depth, one turf is laid in the bottom (</), and another being placed over it (), completes the pipe. The same sort of pipe drain has been formed out of solid beds of clay, and has served for a time to convey water. As col- lecting drains, of course, they can be of little or no use. Hannay, an ingenious farmer in Wigtonshire, adopted this mode for tlie purpose of conveying water tlirough running sand, in which only a pipe drain will last for a moderate time. After a number of years the clay turves were found effective in con- veying away the water, and preventing the running away of the sandy sides of the drain. 4297. Pearson's method of pipe-draining will be found described at length in the Transactions oft/ie ^ , Society of Arts, vol. xlvii. for ISTO. The ground is '^ I —^ " I y—N first opened by a plough, with what is called a horn-share, {fig. Go's.) With four horses and the horn-share (n), a furrow nine or ten inches deep by ten inches is taken out. The horns are then removed, the coulters [b b) added, and eight horses attached. This cuts the soil to an additional depth of ten inches (c), and it is i
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