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Minimum Construction Requirements For New Dwellings Located In The Northern California District, Federal Housing Administration Jan 1938

Minimum Construction Requirements For New Dwellings Located In The Northern California District, Federal Housing Administration

Rammed Earth Collection

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Rammed Earth Walls For Farm Building (Revised April 1938), Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State College Jan 1938

Rammed Earth Walls For Farm Building (Revised April 1938), Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota State College

Rammed Earth Collection

This is the second edition of Experiment Station Bulletin 277-1933, slightly revised and containing a supplement of results and progress up to 1938 that was not reported in Experiment Station Bulletin 298 published in 1936 and entitled "The Relation of Colloids in Soil to Its Favorable Use in Pise or Rammed Earth Walls."


Design Considerations In Food Irrigation, Hans G. Jepson Jan 1938

Design Considerations In Food Irrigation, Hans G. Jepson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Flood-irrigation is primarily a system of irrigation which utilizes a part or all of the surface run-off is diverted from contributing watersheds and distributed over the fields by dikes or ditches. Diversion is accomplished through the use of a dam or of dikes if the volume of water diverted is not too great. There are thousands upon thousands of fertile acres throughout the arid and semi-arid regions of the Great Plains which could be materially benefited if bolstered by a little additional rainfall. It is not possible to increase the normal precipitation over the area , but it is possible, …