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made on the map to represent them. The distances should be 

 accurately measured in the field, how many rods from a given 

 corner a certain ditch crosses the boundary of such a field, and 

 how many rods it runs in a given direction, and how many rods 

 from a certain corner it crosses the fence towards the outlet. 

 Should there be branches in a main ditch, let the distance from a 

 given side of the field be accurately measured, in rods or feet, and 

 noted down with the dotted lines on the map. All this will not 

 require as much time, if everything is performed systematically, 

 as I have consumed in penning these few thoughts. If the 

 ditches are filled with tile, stone, or wood, in any form, let it be 

 noted on the map, and also the time when the ditches were made. 



7. T he advantage to be derived from knowing exactly, to one 

 foot or less, where an under-drain is located, may often be of 

 more or less pecuniary profit, in case a certain ditch should fail 

 to discharge the surplus water where it is located, in consequence 

 of some little obstruction, which could be readily found if the 

 exact location of the drain were known. (See DRAINING, 395.) 



8. If a young farmer should happen to settle on a farm where 

 all the necessary buildings are erected and the fields laid out, he 

 may frequently obviate many very great inconveniences, by 

 altering the shape of his fields, and by removing the out-build 

 ings to a more desirable and convenient location. 



GENERAL REMARKS AND SUGGESTIONS IN REFERENCE TO 

 ERECTING FARM BUILDINGS. 



9. Every man who has a lot of farm buildings to erect, needs 

 all the forethought and experience of him who has had the super 

 vision of erecting the necessary buildings of a large farm, in 

 order that he may be able to plan everything judiciously, and 

 see that every part of a job is executed economically and sub 

 stantially. Erecting buildings is a piece of labor which is not to 

 be performed every year of a man's life ; and it is almost always 

 quite impracticable to undo, and perform correctly, a job in build 

 ing that has been done amiss. Not one in fifty knows how to 

 take advantage of common circumstances in erecting his build- 



