Land draining; a handbook for farmers on the principles and practice of farm draining Manly Miles

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of general principles, and his sound judgment in other particulars, it is strange that he should have followed the common practice, which was founded in error. "Smith, of Deanston," was an earnest advocate of the advantages of deep plowing and thorough pillage, in connection with his system of draining, as the title of his papers indicate. He invented a subsoil plow, that was used with the best results, on his farm of two hundred acres, stirring the soil to the depth of sixteen inches. Among the incidental advantages of draining high lands, he made the suggestion that the "absence of ridges and prevalence of a uniform and smooth surface," would facilitate the use of reaping machinery, which he predicted would very soon be employed on every farm. In the industrial arts, the great discoveries) or inventions, are so often made, at about the same time, by a number of individuals acting independently, that they seem to be the result of the development of the age, rather than the prerogative of individual genius. The progress made in the common stock of intelligence and knowledge, apparently determines the possibilities and direction of the work of discovery and invention. The system of draining invented by Smith, of Deanston, furnishes another illustration of this well-known fact, but it does not, in the least, diminish his well-earned reputation as the exponent of an improved system of great practical value. Mr. Ph. Pusey, M. P., in 1842, informs us that he had obtained conclusive evidence that a system of draining, essentially the same as th-t described by Mr. Smith, had been practiced in Suffolk for more than forty years (some of his correspondents say 100 years), and that for a long time it had likewise been practiced in Essex, "so m... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Land draining; a handbook for farmers on the principles and practice of farm draining (Manly Miles)