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faster than it can get out at the outlet; and if your drain is a 

 few liundred rods long, the capacity for getting in, is over a 

 hundred times greater than that for getting out. 



THE STOPPAGE OF TILE DRAINS. 



I know of a three-inch tile drain that stopped running, and 

 on taking it up there were found over twenty muskrats in the 

 drain ; they were so swelled that no water could pass them. 

 But roots are the most troublesome, sycamore and willow being 

 the most dangerous, though elm, ash, alder, and some others are 

 attracted by water. Old trees are not so apt to injure drains 

 as young and free-growing trees. Deep drains are not only 

 the best, but are nothing like so apt to be closed by animals 

 and roots. Shallow drains are very often closed by the roots 

 of grass and other growing crops. I have never known a drain 

 so deep that the roots of growing crops could not reach it. 



WHAT IT COSTS PER ACRE TO DRAIN. 



A field of forty rods square, or ten acres, had four drains 

 put across it from side to side. In these drains were laid four- 

 inch tile for the first twenty rods, costing thirty-five cents per 

 rod ; three-inch for the next fifteen rods, costing twenty-five 

 cents per rod ; and the last five rods were two-inch, costing 

 fifteen cents per rod, aggregating a cost of tile for one drain 

 of eleven dollars and fifty cents ; digging the drain at twenty 

 cents per rod, eight dollars ; laying the tile and filling the ditch, 

 four cents per rod, one dollar and sixty cents ; making the 

 total cost for draining the ten acres, eighty-four dollars and 

 forty cents. 



I have never known a man to lose his farm by borrowing 

 money at ten per cent, to drain it, but I know of several 

 farmers who have lost their farms by paying ten per cent, for 

 money to build with. However, I would not advise any one to 

 pay ten per cent, for money to improve a fahn with. 



WATER. 



The first thing to be looked after is the convenience and 

 supply of good water. I have never seen a better arrangement 



