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Draining for profit, and draining for health / by Geo. E. Waring, jr.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1867 Waring
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waring, George E., Jr. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drainage.
- Drain-tiles.
- Genre:
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1867.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1867.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 7-244 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Orange Judd company, 1867. (N.Y. : Lovejoy & Son, electrotypers and stereotypers)
- Contents:
- Land to be drained, and the reasons why
- How drains act, and how they affect the soil
- How to go to work to lay out a sytem of drains
- How to make the drains
- How to take care of drains and drained land
- What draining costs
- Will it pay?
- How to make draining tiles
- The reclaiming of salt marshes
- Malarial diseases
- House drainage and town sewerage in their relations to the public health.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Cover engraved by John Feely, signed Feely, in all caps.
- Cited in:
- Allen, Sue. Decorated cloth in America, p. 51
- OCLC:
- 2936330
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