Farm drainage / The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles

by Henry F. French

• Capacity of pipes; [131], [132], [134], [201]
• Capillary attraction; [302]
• Cellars, drainage of; [351]-[359]
• Challoner's Level; [235]
• Clay soil; [167], [329]
• Clays, drainage of; [322]-[332]
• Clays, cracking of; [275], [324]-[331]
• Collars; [47], [126], [127], [128], [219], [316], [320], [378]
• Cold from evaporation; [63], [272]
• Cost of drainage; [211]-[224], [309], [376]
  • Cost of tiles; [201]-[205], [381]
• Count Rumford; [272], [273], [287]
• Country Gentleman; [16], [198], [329]
• Crisp, Thomas; [203]
• Custis, G. W. P.; [18]

• Dams; [333], [347]
• Deanston system; [37]
• Delafield; [46], [76], [168]
• Denton, J. Bailey; [21], [161]
  • Denton, Letter from; [200]
• Depth of drains; [164]-[173], [326], [328], [377]
• Directions how to lay drains; [252]-[258]
• Dew, cause of; [305]
  • Dew, increased by drainage; [284], [306]
  • Dew, imparts warmth; [307]
• Dew-point; [65], [66], [306]
• Dickinson, A. B.; [108]
• Direction of drains; [146]-[155]
• Distance of drains; [155]-[164], [377]
• Ditch diggers; [247]-[251]
• Drainage acts; [349]
  • Drainage companies; [333]
  • Drainage effects of; [258]-[276]
  • Drainage methods of; [99]-[120]
  • Drainage water of; [60], [61], [339]
• Drainage, will it pay?; [95]
• Drain bricks; [121], [144]
• Drains of brush; [104]
  • Drains, larch tubes; [111]
  • Drains, plug; [106]
  • Drains of poles; [113]
  • Drains, rails; [112]
  • Drains, stones; [114]-[119]
  • Drains, wedge; [110]
  • Drains run before rain; [269], [270]
• Drought, drains prevent; [281]-[286], [300]
• Dry Wells; [197], [198]
• Durability of drains; [141]-[145]

• Elkington's system; [27], [33], [240], [365]
• Embankment; [18]
• Emerson, R. W.; [15], [23]
• Engineering; [163], [213]
• England; [19], [340]
  • England, wet land in; [89]
• English tools; [243]
• Evaporation; [48], [61], [62], [293]-[297]
  • Evaporation, cold from; [63], [272], [293]-[297]
  • Evaporation from land; [62], [69], [72]
  • Evaporation from water; [62], [69], [73]
• Excavation; [165]
  • Excavation, cost of; [165], [201], [214]
  • Excavation, table of; [216]
• Experiments, American; [367], [376]

• Factory reservoirs; [341]-[343]
• Fall in drains; [174], [378]
• Fences; [211], [346]
• Filtration; [41], [60], [61]
• Filtration tables of; [70], [71]
• Fitzherbert; [23]
• Flat-bottomed tiles; [129]
• Flowage, effects of; [333], [341], [343], [346]
• Flushing drains; [186]
• Freezing out; [75], [262]
  • Freezing of pipes; [171]
• French's plan; [373]
• Friction of water; [131], [133]
• Frost; [67], [143], [170], [172], [297], [299]
• Fruit trees; [298], [374]
• Furrows; [195]

• Gauge; [246]
• Germination; [276]-[281]
• Gillis, Lieut.; [65]
• Gisborne; [122], [126]
• Gravitation; [131]
• Grading drains; [233]
• Gratings at outlets; [183]
• Great Britain; [89]
  • Great Britain, wet lands in; [89]
• Greeley, Horace; [88]

• Haarlaem, Lake; [19]
• Headers; [153], [154]
• Heat in wet land; [288]-[290]
  • Heat in water; [272], [273]
• Hobbs, Doctor; [51], [54], [56]
• Holyoke, Doctor; [62]
• Horse-shoe tiles; [124]

• Implements; [225], [252]
• Indications of moisture; [93]
• Injury by drainage; [308], [313]
• Ireland, drainage in; [376]
• Irrigation; [14]
• Irish spade; [238]

• Johnson, B. P.; [17]
• Johnston, John; [46], [168], [256], [262], [328], [329]
• Johnstone; [28], [31], [120]
• Joints, how covered; [255]
  • Joints, spaces at; [134], [140]
• Junction of drains; [195], [196]

• Keythorpe system; [40]
• Klippart, J. H.; [16]

• Land Drainage Companies; [349]
• Larch tubes; [111]
• Lardner, Dr.; [270]
• Laying out drains; [213], [253]
• Laying tiles; [219], [252]-[258]
• Legal rights to water; [85], [86], [346]
• Legislation; [340]
• Levelling instruments; [229]-[235]
• Lincolnshire fens; [19], [310]
• Lines, use of; [233], [253]
• Lord Lincoln's Act; [347]