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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 348

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, would bring the parts of the field under cultiva-tion that otherwise would be waste ; but gradually the farmers learned thatthere were other valuable effects from drainage, and that most heavy claylands would be benefited by it sufficiently to justify the expense. The fol-lowing incidental… … 326 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX1 CENTURY the soil and makes it possible to work and. plant it earlier in the spring;fifth, it prevents washing and waste of manure; sixth, it often preventsfailure of crops in excessively wet seasons, and enables them to endure droughtbetter in dry seasons.…

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