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for his own benefit. He put a dam across and held the water back 

 on to his neighbor's land, so it couldn't overflow his land, and all 

 the water had to go down through that 10-inch tile, and if there 

 was any surface water he held it back. 



Mr, Arnold. — The great German chemist, Liebig, demonstrated, 

 fifty years ago, that if you take liquid manure and run it through 

 the earth covering tiles, that you will have pure water when it 

 goes through. I would not be afraid to tile drain land on account 

 of the loss of fertility, but I thiak you would lose less if you had 

 a crop growing than without it, according to these experiments. 



