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" Mr. A. N. Cole, of Wellsville, Allegany county, New York, lias 

 been sedulously engaged for two or three years past in developing 

 at his " Home on the Hillside " a new system of uniform drainage, 

 subterranean irrigation and fertilization, applicable to all mountain- 

 ous, hilly or undulatory sections having a firm clay or hard-pan 

 sub-soil. His discoveries and experiments have led to most sur- 

 prising results." 



Subsequent to the publication of the above, and the week pre- 

 vious to an address made by us at the Cooper Institute in New 

 York City upon invitation of the Executive Committee of the 

 Farmers' Club, of the American Institute, of New York, the follow- 

 ing communication was published in THE AMERICAN ANGLER, under 

 the heading of "Man Begotten Trout Streams." 

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" Let me state a few facts, prefacing with a statement by way of 

 illustration. The fall of water in overflow at our village mill has 

 been capped completely with ice, hiding the water from view, dash- 

 ing down an apron at an angle of forty-five degrees or thereabouts. 

 The Genesee, Chemung, Canisteo and Susquehanna are at many 

 points frozen to their bottoms. Brooks issuing from springs are 

 frozen which never within my knowledge were known to freeze be- 

 fore. My spring brook, evoked from our hillside, among others, has 

 frozen in the prism of the canal into which the waters from my 

 trenches discharge. This prism is completely filled with ice, and 

 yet, so warm are the waters entering at the bottom of the canal, they 

 find their way out by melting the ice above in the coldest of 

 weather. These waters in trenches along my hillside are found in 

 chambers of stone at a depth of about three feet and a half, 

 covered with an earth sponge of pure mold or rich loam. There 

 are nearly two feet of snow along my side hill on the average. Such 

 is the effect from evaporation of the waters beneath at spring-water 



