COLE'S COMBINED SYSTEM Drainage and Irrigation. A NEW SYSTEM OF
AGRICULTURE by A. N. COLE, First published in 1889.Preface:
Biographical Sketch of A. N. Cole Water a Necessity for Vegetation
Drainage The New System CONTENTS. PAGE: Stone Storage Trenches 33
Tile 36 Square 36 Cement For Sand Lands 37 Depth and Distance of
Storage Trenches 38 Family and Market Gardens 39 Lawns 40 Orchards
. 5 7-8 23 29 33 40 Grass Lands 41 Arable Lands 42 Artesian Wells
42 Swamp Lands 43 Workings of the System Effects on Soil. 46 Crops
48 Builds up Soils 50 Use of Hot Water 56 Five Crops a Year 57
Irrigation in Florida 65 Mr. Coles Model Plot 68 Reports 69 French
Methods 86 Ridits of Application Obituary...PREFACE, CONSTANT and
increasing demand from every part of the world, especially from all
sections of our own country, for a cheap Manual descriptive of Mr.
Coles system of Drainage and Irrigation, has at last induced him to
intrust to me the work of arranging this book, he being too ill at
this time to do so. In its .preparation I shall endeavor to treat
the subject in a most practi- cal manner, and in the fewest
possible words necessary to the end in view, and yet complete
enough that all may fully understand, and for themselves see its
numberless advantages and possibilities. In the facts stated we
have been conservative, feeling to under, rather than overdraw
them. it better Speaking for Mr. Cole, we extend to every reader of
this Man- ual an invitation to visit the 1 Home on the Hillside,
and make personal examination of his work and its results. The
grounds are open to public inspection at all times. A. P. COLE.
Biographical sketch of the life and services of the Hon. A. N.
Cole, of the Home on theHillside, Wellsville, Allegany County, N.
Y. CHAPTER I. As a frontispiece to this volume, we open its pages
by introduction of the likeness of the originator of what has been
denominated aquaculture, the new agriculture, or sub-irrigation.
The relations of father and son existing between the author of this
sketch and the originator of the New Agriculture, makes it a matter
of delicacy to undertake this biography, and yet, feeling as we do
that none know the man on whose life we discourse better than his
firstborn, we waive considerations of delicacy and proceed to our
work cheerfully. It would be impossible to write out in anything
like detail even the more striking features of the life of a man
ofwhom it may be aptly said he knew no youth, but entered upon the
work of the full-grown man at the age of fourteen, knowing little
of rest or respite for the full period of three score years, having
wrought almost incessantly in one way and another for the good of
his fellow-men. Inclined to leave to the pens of others, as far as
may be, that manner of mention most commendatory of his work, we
introduce at opening an editorial appearing a few months since in
the columns ofColmans Rural World, as follows Mr. Cole was born in
Cattaraugus County, N. Y., in 1821, and is no longer a young man in
the matter of years. He comes from grand old stock, and inherits an
amount of vitality which renews its youth with passing years, hence
never gets old. The Plymouth or Roger Williams Colony at Freedom,
Cattaraugus County, N. Y., embraced rep- resentatives of the blue
blood of nearly or quite all of the early Pilgrim families. The
first great swarm that went out from Plymouth and Provi- dence
settled in theGenessee Valley and along the Cattaraugus Creek in
the beginning of the present century. Others followed until nearly
all the counties of Western New York, North-western Pennsylvania,
and the
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