Proceedings Of Seventh Annual Drainage Convention Of The North Carolina Drainage Association Held At Wilson North Carolina November 18 And 19 1914

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230020211
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of Seventh Annual Drainage Convention of the North Carolina Drainage Association Held at Wilson, North Carolina, November 18 And 19 1914 written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... suffer from a prolonged drought. The laterals, therefore, should not be deep at the start, and until the ground has been cultivated a few years, a depth for the laterals of more than three and one-half feet is not recommended. Experience elsewhere has shown that muck lands have been irreparably damaged by a lowering of the water table below the subsoil, followed by a very dry season. If properly handled at the start this difficulty will vanish, after a few years of cultivation. Whether or not tile should be used at the start, as laterals, is open to more study. It is the opinion of the writer that tile can safely be used, if laid on a firm subsoil and arrangements are made by which the tile may be closed during periods of drougth, thereby controlling the position of the water table. These muck lands when properly subdued and thoroughly drained can not be injured by any rainfall, as their storage capacity is very great, and on the other hand this same quality gives rise to a high capillarity which makes the most drought resisting soils. The drainage of the lands having been accomplished the next step is their development. In this step the building of a system of good roads comes first. No argument is needed to prove this, for good roads have always been the forerunner of development. The system of roads must be designed to give every individual tract of land an outlet to the main highways. One part of this system can be made easily by levelling one spoil bank on each drainage canal, which with proper working with a road machine will give a good solid, sand-clay road with perfect drainage. This can be done at a cost of from $400 to $600 per mile, or for a road on a minimum sized dredged ditch at an extra cost above the cost of excavation...