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age work upon our farm to get it in shape. We started in 1894 and 

 we have 10 1-5 miles (3265 rods) on 57.85 acres of land. It has paid 

 us many times over the cost — 12,500. In the year 1908 our potato 

 sales from IS acres reached |2,807.89, and the drainage system more 

 than paid for itself that one year. Four tons of cured clover and 

 forty-five bushels of wheat per acre are the other best yields. Eight 

 here at my left (indicating on blue print) was a large pond and 

 here an open ditch and natural stream. It leaves our place at this 

 point and goes across a neighbor's farm. All this work was done 

 at our own expense and the distance 3750 feet. The work on this 

 neighboring farm has cost several hundred dollars. That shows how 

 we value tile drains. Not only this, but we have to annually clean 

 this out at an expense ranging from flO.OO to |50.00. The fall is 

 slight and consequently the water flowing there deposits sediment 

 which must be shoveled out later. 



LAYING OUT SYSTEM 



Suppose we had a rectangular field and wanted to drain it. If a 

 valley passed down the centre of that and the slope of ground was at 

 right angles to the valley. The proper way to drain it would be to 

 put the main through there, the lowest places, and the laterals placed 

 at right angles — straight up the slope. Or if the field had a slope, 

 say angling to this low place down through the centre, the side drains 

 ought to be placed like that at an angle of 45 degrees. (Illustrated 

 on blackboard.) That would be the proper way to lay out the sys- 

 tem. Run the drain straight up and down the slope, so each lateral 

 takes water equally from either side. Drains running diagonally up 

 a hillside take water principally from the upper side — an intercepting 

 drain — half a drain giving only 50 per cent, efficiency where 100 per 

 cent, is obtainable. Good drainage consists of parallel drains of 

 good length and depth and so placed that the drainage reaches 

 laterally from drain to drain and on time. 



EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS 



To the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture: 



We your Committee on Eesolutions beg leave to offer the follow- 

 ing report. We have studied the Resolutions submitted to us and 

 report the following as meeting our approval : 



RESOLVED, That we recommend to the General Assembly of our 

 State, now in session, the passage of an act providing that fertilizer 

 manufacturers shall, in placing their guaranteed analysis upon the 

 packages containing their goods, make no statement of equivalents 

 or any other matter than the simple statement now required by law. 



Appreciating the valuable services of Mr. H. J. W^ilder of the 

 Bureau of Soils of the National Department of Agriculture, we would 

 respectively urge the Federal Department of Agriculture to continue 



