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Another clevis is attached to the other end of the pole, to 

 which are hitched two horses. Then, with one man to drive 

 the team, and one to hold the plow, it is a very little trouble 

 to fill in hundreds of rods in a very short time. 



TILE WELLS FOR STOCK. 



Last Spring we arranged two drinking places for our stock, 

 as follows: After choosing the location, we built a stone wall 

 over the tile up to the level of the ground, then graded down 

 to the tile for a distance of two rods, and made a rock trough, 

 about a foot wide, by placing flat rock at the bottom and put- 

 ting in long rock at the edges, then paving back up to the 

 level ground with good sized rock. We put iron bars across 

 the tile below, to keep out the trash. It makes an excellent 

 drinking place for the stock, and the water is always clear and 

 pure. Tile drains and wind mills have made such 



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in this part of the country, that people wonder how in the 

 world they ever got along without them. One of my neigh- 

 bors is going to put 15,000 tile in one field next Spring ; five 

 of six-inch, five of five-inch, and five of three-inch. On an 

 adjoining farm, of which I had charge last year, we expended 

 a little over $300 in tile draining. Previously no one would 

 undertake to plow the same. 



"WE THEN RENTED THE LAND FOR TWO-FIFTHS 



of the crop, and now they are gathering nearly seventy bushels 

 of corn to the acre, and I am besieged all the time with appli- 

 cants to rent the land next year on the halves, they finding 

 every thing and delivering the corn in the crib. This land had 

 evidently been the bed of a lake at one time, and is a rich, black 

 loam, and very flat. A little more tile will make it the best 

 land in the vicinity. It belongs to the Totts estate, and this 

 one crop has increased its value one-third. 



IN CONCLUSION 



no farmer who owns flat land, susceptible of tile draining, can 

 afford to neglect it any longer. Money invested in tiling is far 



