CHAPTER IV.. Drainage of High Lands--What Lands Require Drainage.

DRAINAGE OF HIGH LANDS--WHAT LANDS REQUIRE DRAINAGE.

What is High Land?--Accidents to Crops from Water.--Do Lands need Drainage in America?--Springs.--Theory of Moisture, with Illustrations.--Water of Pressure.--Legal Rights as to Draining our Neighbor's Wells and Land.--What Lands require Drainage?--Horace Greeley's Opinion.--Drainage more Necessary in America than in England; Indications of too much Moisture.--Will Drainage Pay?