Farm Drainage
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Researchers in the history of agricultural technology and water management who need early primary sources
- Agricultural enthusiasts interested in traditional farming methods and farmland improvement
- Students in agricultural fields seeking supplementary reading in technological history
- Readers who enjoy older English technical works and are interested in the evolution of ideas
Not a good fit for
- Practitioners who need modern drainage engineering design standards and construction parameters
- Readers seeking modern farmland management solutions that can be directly applied
- General readers unaccustomed to old-fashioned English expression and older technical works
Reading tips
- Begin with the introduction and conclusion to grasp the author's core arguments, then return to read the specific chapters in detail.
- Mark passages dealing with principles while reading and compare them with modern common knowledge of agricultural water management to distinguish what still applies.
- Relate the book's ideas to local farmland drainage conditions and consider their feasibility under contemporary circumstances.
- Do not dwell on old-fashioned expressions and units; focus on the logic of the argument and the summary of experience.
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About the author
Henry F. French (1813–1885) was an American lawyer, educator, and landscape architect who served as the dean of an agricultural college. His career spanned law, education, and land planning, and in later life he focused especially on agricultural improvement and farmland water management. His representative work, Farm drainage, discusses the planning and construction of drainage systems and the improvement of soils. Written for practical farming needs in plain, hands-on prose, it stands among the utilitarian agricultural engineering works of nineteenth-century America. His writing served farming practice, stressing engineering methods to improve cultivated land and raise the efficiency of land use. Because public information is limited, details of his life and intellectual background remain difficult to trace; only one of his works is held in this collection, and readers chiefly know him through this agricultural book.
