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few struggling bacteria left in it, enough so that we want them 

 to become oxygenated as soon as possible ; and by having this 

 open jointed tile almost level the water soaks out at the joints, 

 [f you have a large fall the effluent rushes to the bottom and 

 there is a wet spot. The theory is to have it go out so gently 

 that when it comes to the first joint as much as the soil will 

 absorb will soak into the ground. The effluent should soak out 

 through the joints as it comes to them. 



As to how much of that pipe is required, on my own farm in 

 New York, where I built the first one, I tried this experiment 

 to find out how much pipe was necessary: I put in 48 feet of 

 pipe, ordinary land tile one foot long, and in each joint I put 

 a piece of tissue paper, marking the pieces i, 2, 3 and on to 48. 

 and left them all winter. Then I took it up to see how fai 

 those pieces of tissue paper had been carried along in the pipe, 

 and as I remember it, it was 23 feet. Beyond that they lay 

 right in the tile where they were placed, showing that they had 

 been soaked with soil water rather than the current from the 

 tank. This was in soil which was very loose and gravelly, t 

 have installed these tanks on ordinary clay soil where the hard 

 pan did not come up so high, with twice 48 feet of pipe, with 

 perfectly satisfactory result?. At Good Will we have now 

 about 100 feet already installed and I am watching it to see how 

 much more we need. 



Ques. Do you stop the end of the tile up? 

 Ans. We put a stone over the end, covering it up level. We 

 leave no open space at the end because we calculate to have the 

 tile long enough so that no water can get to the end. I would 

 as soon have glazed tile as anything, as the water gets out 

 through the joint openings. I think Dr. Jordan was the first to 

 explode the old theory of water soaking through land tile. 



Why I became so interested in this subject is because the 

 Department asked me to talk about the disposal of farm wastes 

 at Farmers' Institutes, and I talked it and I guess I could have 

 talked it yet. When I talked about the old fashioned tank there 

 was not a farmer in the audience who paid any more attention 

 to it than as though I was talking about Greek ; so through 

 Prof. Ogden of Cornell I got on track of this single tank and 

 T am satisfied there is no excuse for the old fashioned double 

 tank or the syphon. After drawing plans for over 3,000 I think. 



