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liim with his facilities to excavate and fill a ditch three 

 feet deep on his soil. 



The tiles are much more expensive than thoro is need of 

 their being, from the fact that there is so little call for them 

 that there are but few manufactoriis of drain tile, conse- 

 quently little or no competition, which state of things would 

 soon be done away with were they more generally used, as I 

 believe they evenfn.ally will be. 



The nearest point at wliich they are manufactm-ed is St. 

 Albans Bay, Vermont, Mr. E. T. Jewett being the manu- 

 facturer. 



His prices, delivered on board the cars at St. Albans sta- 

 tion, are : Eleven dollars per thousand for two inch tiles ; 

 seventeen dollars per thousand for three inch, and twenty- 

 four dollars per thousand for four inch. The pieces are 

 cut fourteen inches long, Out, in burning, shrink in length 

 80 as to measure only about tliirteen inches long, which 

 would make the cost per rod, exclusive of freight, about 

 sixteen cents for two inch, twenty-seven cents for three 

 inch, and forty cents for four inch tiles. 



He now sells about three hundred thousand yearly, and 

 informs me that his sales incr.'-'i.se yearly. 



Drains once well laid need little or no attention after- 

 wards, provided there is sufficient fall at the outlet so that 

 the mud deposited will not check the flow of the water, a 

 point which should be looked to at least each spring and 

 fall. 



There are many points u\ on which I shoidd have dwelt 

 more particularly ; also many minor • <.ints on which I 



