The lateral ditching (of which there are over fifty miles) is shown on the plat by the fine lines.
The ditching of the marsh farm he regarded as an experiment of far-reaching public importance, and he paid its cost cheerfully for the sake of settling the question of the possibility of reclaiming such lands.
But even without so expensive a process, very important results have been obtained by simply ditching declivities.
Thank heaven, that high fog scared us intoditching around the tent," said Cal fervently.
As he was ditching the hand car the ragged urchin who had made a slide for life into the tunnel took to his heels and scampered away.
Then I came here to Little Rock in 1904 and followed ditching with the home water company.
In small places, ditching must ordinarily be done wholly with hand tools.
Bob Rand, by some bargain with his father, continued the ditching and planting of the swamp with some profit to himself.
In the autumn of '56 they began ditching the swamp in the direction of the lake, and in the summer of '57 raised a crop of tobacco in the northeast corner, R.
The field labourer of northern countries may be but a hapless hind, hedging and ditching dolefully, or at best serving a steam-beast with oil and fire; but in the land of the Georgics there is the poetry of agriculture still.
The field-labourer of northern counties may be but a hapless hind, hedging and ditching dolefully, or at least serving a steam-beast with oil and fire, but in the land of the Georgics there is the poetry of agriculture still.
In the spring, when the bogs were thawed some depth, Sivert came down from Sellanraa to Storborg, to start a bit of ditching for his brother, and lo, Andresen himself went out on the land digging too.
No, he would not come in, hadn't the time; he was going to start ditching that same evening.
The ground is still workable, and Isak goes down one day with Sivert, ditching and draining the road.
That was the proper way; ditching first, then plough and sow.
There are chainditching machines in which the chain of buckets runs laterally across the course of the ditch, dipping into the earth to form a V-shaped channel.
It is well established that sugar planters had systematic recourse to immigrant labor for ditching and other severe work.
By employing squads of immigrant Irishmen for ditching and other severe work he kept his literally precious negroes, well housed and fed, in fit condition for effective routine under his well selected staff of overseers.
Van and Allie are ditching and cleaning the swamp of the Italians below here.
It should be arranged to have the tiles all on the ground before the work of ditching commences, so that there may be no delay and consequent danger to the stability of the banks of the ditches, while waiting for them to arrive.
But, to resume, I saw that there was no dainty way to do ditching and stepped in.
Because of this, ditching has long been regarded as one of the finest things in the world to urge young men to higher things.
They have been known to work so hard to get away from ditching that they have become multi-millionaires and ministers and school teachers and such like.
Some one had told me once that when ditching one should begin at the top of the drain and work down with the water.
Before getting back to the ditching I want to suggest to the rules committees of all golf clubs that there are times and places when a duffer at least should be allowed to use a long-handled shovel.
When the boy found the grammar too hard his father gave him a job of ditching and he quickly went back to his studies and became President.
There is a job ofditching to do that it will be hard to make joyous, but never mind.
While I was ditching Opportunity knocked at my door.
The President in embryo found ditching so hard that to get away from it he started off with a rush that finally landed him in the White House.
We give the cut and statement from the Cyclopædia of Agriculture, and if the machine shall prove what it is represented to be, we see but little more to be desired in a ditching machine.
Motive: jealousy because Nita was ditching him to marry Ralph.
All other ditching was done by a railroad plow followed by pick and shovel, or by the two latter tools only.
We've arranged it for to-morrow at seven on Ditching Common.
I taught him his exercises, for he never loved the sight of a book, and he in turn made me box and wrestle, tickle trout on the Adur, and snare rabbits on Ditching Down, for his hands were as active as his brain was slow.
Upon investigation it was found this would require widening of the old road bed from one foot to five feet, re-ditching for a large part of the 10 miles and the replacing of several culverts.
The improvement will include re-ditching of the road bed and the installation of culvert pipe in several places.
The macadam road was of insufficient width for supporting a 16 foot pavement, which condition required widening of the grade, re-ditching and the placing of extra crushed rock for base.
But I soon found ditching harder than Latin, and the first forenoon was the longest I ever experienced.
If John Adams had continued his ditching instead of his Latin, his name would not probably have been known to us.
Another planting season is approaching, and we are hoping that your people have been doing the preparatory work of ditching for the raising of good crops.
The ditching may be done economically and quickly with dynamite, and in many cases this will answer just as well as the more expensive tiling.
Water-logged soil should never be blasted except for the purpose of ditching it or tiling it so as to get it into a proper condition for blasting.
When the ditching or tiling has drained this subsoil, it may then be safely blasted.
Instead of a train-load of passengers to handle there won't be no one after the ditching but what's left of the train crew and the mail clerks; a couple of us can stand the stamp lickers up easy, while the two others pinches the swag.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ditching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
