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per rod, or forty dollars and fifty cents per acre. More time 

 is needed, with wet and dry seasons, to test the efficiency of 

 drains so far apart. 



This field was ploughed, but not subsoilcd, last fall. It was 

 in good working order in three days after the frost was out, 

 two weeks earlier than the adjacent land was ready to plougli. 

 If not so thorough in laying the land dry and giving it such an 

 open, porous soil as is desirable, its evident benefit at so small 

 a cost per acre makes the experiment worthy of imitation. 



Appended are some statistics of the cost, as ascertained, in 

 draining tliis farm. These, however, must vary with circum- 

 stances, such as convenience of material, presence or absence 

 of rock in the cuts for drains, price of labor, &c. No allow- 

 ance is made for the removal of the large stone piles that en- 

 cumbered these fields with disagreeable frequency, though it 

 might be reasonably estimated as worth one-fourth or one-third 

 the cost of the drains to get rid of these unsightly objects, by 

 burying them forever beneath the reach of scythe, hoe, or even 

 plough. 



Cost of stone drains : 



MAINS. 



Cts. per rod. 



Digging 4 ft. deep, 2 ft. wide at bottom, 44 



Hauling stone for channel, 15 



Laying same, 12 



Hauling and picking small stones for filling, 12 



Sods, boughs or moss, 5 



Keturning earth with scraper, 12 



81,00 



SMAI-L DKIANS. 



Cts. j)er rod. 



Digging 34- ft. dopp, 20 inches at bottom, 37^ 



Hauling stone for channel, 12^- 



Laying same, 10 



Hauling and picking small stones for filling, 12 

 Sods, boughs or moss, 4 



Keturning earth with scraper, 10 



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