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One drawback was that landing on a smooth area is sort of like landing on smooth areas of hard-pan or desert here on earth - not likely to be teeming with life.

The Phoenix has landed frankwu 2008

Which brings us back to Elko, the hard-pan northern Nevada ranching community that voted for Obama by a two-to-one margin, thereby ensuring his under-reported delegate win.

Michael Ames: Obama Prospects For Votes In The Red West 2008

These accessories provide a useful means for continuing the well when water saturated or hard-pan formations are encountered.

1.1 The role and purpose of irrigation 1994

He looked at the splotches that had landed on the hard-pan and watched as they were sucked up with uncanny suddenness.

The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

Most of those, however, who have wielded the pick-axe in laying four-foot drains, in clay or hard-pan, will have doubts whether Jack

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

That clay, when wet, as taken out, would hold water about as well as iron: yet, from experiments I have made, I am confident that such clay soil can be drained, and at much less expense than a hard-pan soil.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

-- It may be gravelly, pure sand, sandy loam, clay or clay loam, muck or humus, shallow or rocky, and the subsoil may be sand, clay or hard clay with stones (hard-pan).

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

I cannot help thinking less of him as a farmer than as a kind-hearted poet; too soft of the edge to cut very deeply into hard-pan, and too porous and flimsy of character for any compacted resolve: yet taking life tenderly, withal; good to those poorer than himself; making a rattling appeal for Christmas charities; hospitable, cheerful, and looking always to the end with an honest clearness of vision: --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

Rich Masonic goods, Kt. Templar outfits, and books at hard-pan prices.

Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

I never had any blue clay on my farm, or hard-pan, to trouble me; but

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French