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Sizes of Drain Tiles. 



Mr. W. H. Bishop, Toledo, Ohio, inquires : " In draining wet 

 upland, say a four acre lot, what sized tiles are best and 

 cheapest ?" 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — Four inch tiles for the main drains will 

 carry a large quantity of Avater, and will be found sufficiently 

 large for conveying all the water that would be collected in a wet 

 place for tifty or one hundred rods. The arms or branch drains 

 may bs made of two inch tiles. 



Several of the members suggested that if there are numerous 

 branch drains emptying into the main drain, the main tiles should 

 be five or six inches in diameter, in order to carry all the water. 



Maple ORCiLiRDS. 



Mr. Cyrus Baker, Whitney's Point, N. Y. — Maple orchards are 

 of great value to tiirmers. More attention should be paid to grow- 

 ing young maples by nurseiy culture or otherwise. They readily 

 start from the seed. I would recommend those making maple 

 sugar to preserve the first run for family use. It has a flavor 

 peculiarly excellent. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — This advice should have a wide applica. 

 tion. Whatever is choicest and most valuable should be saved 

 for family use. Sort over a few barrels of the best apples, have 

 the children pick out the largest eggs; when corn is to be ijround, 

 select the be.st ears, and carefully fan and reserve the plumpest 

 wheat. Pick out the cheese which has the choicest flavor, lay by 

 the whitest clover honey, and salt down the healthiest, tenderest, 

 and best fatted beef and pork. Build up civilization and refine- 

 ment at home; the children will prize it, and when they have 

 homes of their own they will know how to do it. This course 

 will establish an aristocracy and a nobility honorable to free 

 America. Second and third quality productions are to be sold. 

 If city people do not like it, let them have land of their own, and 

 be equally rich. But no matter how good an article you may sell, 

 it will not be retailed pure. First class productions are used only 

 for adulteration, to raise the grade of inferior articles. A family 

 living on the best, and in good houses, will make more money 

 than by taking up with scraps and leavings. This is agreeably 

 to a law of human existence. Second-class food produces second- 

 class ideas, which are weak, and second-class men, which are 

 weaker. 



