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

• Madden, Doctor; [276]
• Mains, position and size of; [190]-[194]
• Mangolds, obstruction by; [316], [317], [379]
• Mapes, Prof.; [16], [167]
• Massachusetts, laws; [347]
• Mechi, Sheriff; [260], [339]
• Methods of drainage; [99]
• Mice; [104], [116], [315]
• Mill dams; [340]-[344]
• Mill streams; [89], [333]
• Minors; [194]
• Moisture, sources of; [78]
• Moles; [104], [116]
• Mole drains; [107]
• Mole Plow; [108]
• Moon, influence of; [306]
• Morris, Edward; [60]

• Nash, Prof.; [199]
• Nene River; [337]
• New York Park; [47], [219]
• Nourse, B. F.; [285], [299], [367]
  • Nourse, statement and plan of; [195], [367], [372]
• Obstruction of drains; [313]-[320]
  • Obstruction by sand; [313], [321]
  • Obstruction by frogs, &c.; [183], [315], [379]
  • Obstruction, per-oxide of iron; [317]
  • Obstruction, roots; [315], [316], [379]
  • Obstruction, filling at joints; [319]
• Open ditches; [99], [263]
  • Open ditches, objections to; [101], [102]
• Opening ditches; [252]
• Outfalls; [345]
• Outlets; [176]-[183], [219], [252], [257], [315], [378]
• Over-draining peats; [309], [366]

• Parkes, Josiah; [25], [38], [40], [128]
• Paul's ditcher; [250]
• Peat tiles; [113]
• Peats, over-draining of; [309], [366]
• Peep-holes; [187], [188], [321], [373]
• Per-oxide of iron; [317]
• Pettibone, J. S.; [329]
• Picks; [245]
• Pipes; [47], [122], [123], [144]
  • Pipes, capacity of; [131]-[138], [159], [191], [193]
  • Pipes, cost in England; [201], [204]
  • Pipes, cost in United States; [202]-[205], [218]
  • Pipes, position of; [190]-[194]
• Pipe layer; [244], [245]
• Plans of drains; [195], [372], [377]
  • Plans, importance of; [161]
• Plow, use of; [253], [379]
• Plow, Fowler's drain; [247], [248]
  • Plow, Shanghae; [109]
  • Paul's ditcher; [250]
  • Routt's; [251]
• Plug drains; [107]
• Pole drain; [113]
• Pratt's Ditch digger; [248], [249]
• Pressure of water; [131], [132], [331], [332], [356]
  • Pressure, water of; [84]
• Process of draining; [252]-[258]
• Puddling; [198], [266], [323]
• Pulverization; [260], [282], [299]

• Rain; [48], [158], [159], [284]
• Rain-fall; [50], [158], [378]
• Rain-fall, tables of; [53]-[60], [70]-[73]
• Relief pipes; [184], [186]
• Reservoirs; [341], [343]
• Ridge and furrow; [195]
• Rolling pipes; [205], [380]
• Roots, length of; [258], [259], [283]
  • Roots, obstruction by; [315], [316], [379]
• Round pipes; [47], [122]
• Rumford, Count; [272], [273], [287]
• Ruffin, Edmund, Esq.; [29], [364]
• Rye and Derwent; [344]

• Saturation; [66]
• Scoops; [244]
• Screens at outlets; [183]
• Season lengthened; [261]
• Shallow drains; [168]
• Shanghae plow; [109]
• Shedd and Edson; [21], [51], [372]
• Shoulder drain; [110]
• Shovels; [236], [237]
• Silt basin; [186], [379]
• Sinkholes; [198]
• Size of tiles; [190], [201], [377]
• Smith, of Deanston; [26], [37]
• Snow, fall of; [59]
• Sole-tile; [125]
• Spades; [235], [236], [240]-[242]
• Spirit level; [230]
• Springs; [78]-[83]
  • Springs, drainage of; [34]
  • Springs, run before rain; [270]-[271]
  • Springs, how to preserve; [189]
• Staff and target; [231]
• Stagnant water; [93]
• Stone drains; [114]-[119], [377]
  • Stone drains, cost of; [114], [222]
• Stones above tiles; [118]
• Streams affected by drainage; [333]-[340]
• Subsoil plow; [169]
• Subsoiler, Marcus and Co.'s; [107]
• Surface washing prevented; [261]
• Swallow-holes; [197], [198]
• Swamps; [91], [360]
  • Swamps, drainage of; [360]-[363]
• Swamp-lands; [17]
• Swan, R. J.; [168]
• System, importance of; [160], [173]

• Tables of evaporation; [72], [73]
  • Tables of excavation; [216]
  • Tables of filtration; [70], [71]
  • Tables of rain-fall; [53]-[59], [71]-[73]
  • Tables of tiles to acre; [220]
  • Tables of number of rods; [220]
  • Tables of capacity of pipes; [135]-[138]
• Talpa; [23]
• Temperature; [67], [189], [280], [287]-[300]
  • Temperature, underground; [187], [288], [291]
  • Temperature, for vegetation; [271]
• Thermometer, wet and dry; [64], [65]
• Thomas, J. J.; [229]
• Tile-drainage; [120]
• Tiles, cost in England; [201], [212]
  • Tiles, cost in United States; [201]-[205]
  • Tiles, forms of; [122]-[130]
  • Tiles, length of; [221]
  • Tiles, size of; [130]-[138]
  • Tiles, weight of; [219]
  • Tiles, number to the acre; [220]
• Tile machines; [46], [202]-[210]
• Tile-works; [47], [121]
• Tools; [225]-[246]
• Tops and bottoms; [140], [319], [379]
• Traps; [185], [186], [379], [380]

• Velocity of water; [131]
• Vermin; [104]
• Virginia; [18], [364]

• Warder, Doctor; [346]
• Water, how it enters; [138], [314], [320]
  • Water, stagnant; [93]
  • Water of drainage, uses of; [189], [339]
  • Water, velocity of; [131]
• Water passage; [129]
• Water-line; [51], [139]
• Water-powers; [333], [335], [341]-[345]
• Water of pressure; [84], [161]
• Water, pressure of; [84], [140], [141]
  • Water, rights in; [85], [86]
• Wedge drain; [110], [236]
• Weight of tiles; [219], [381]
• Wells, drainage into; [197]-[199]
  • Wells, dried by drains; [85], [366]
• Well and relief-pipe; [184]-[186]
• Well with silt trap; [186]
• Wharncliffe system; [44]
• Width of ditches; [215]-[218], [226]
• Wright, Gov.; [17]

• Yeomans, T. G.; [46], [108]