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John Johnston (11 April 1791, Knocknalling, near Dalry, Galloway – 24 November 1880) was a Scottish-American farmer. He is credited with the first public introduction of agricultural drainage in the United States. He did so in 1838. John Johnston was born in Scotland and emigrated to the United States in 1821.
Dickey was born in Toronto on June 26, 1862, the oldest of 11 children, and moved to Kansas City in 1885. [1] [2]In 1889, he established the W.S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company which started out creating ceramic pipes made of "burnt clay" that were used to drain farmland via tile drainage.
According to the Johnston Farm, [11] tile drainage was first introduced to the United States in 1838, when John Johnston used the practice from his native Scotland on his new farm in Seneca County, New York. Johnston laid 72 miles (116 km) of clay tile on 320 acres (1.3 km 2). The effort increased his yield of wheat from 12 bushels per acre to 60.
In July 2014, the company became a public company via an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $232 million. [4] In February 2015, the company acquired Ideal Pipe of Ontario for $45 million. [5] In July 2019, the company acquired Infiltrator Water Technologies from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan for $1.08 billion. [6]
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