CHAPTER in. 



DESCKIPTION OF THE NEW SYSTEM " HOME ON THE HILLSIDE " THE HOT 



WATER METHOD. 



Those of our readers who have followed us through the intro- 

 ductory chapter and especially in that section of it where the 

 methods of " The New Agriculture " have been described by visit- 

 ing farmers and agricultural editors, have not failed to get a suc- 

 cint idea of the new system, hence it is unnecessary for us to give 

 in this chapter more than a simple resume of the methods adopted 

 by us at our "Home on the Hillside." 



The processes of " The New Agriculture " are so simple and 

 plain that the average intelligence can not only understand and 

 apply it, but having so conformed soils as to set the system in 

 operation, he may go to sleep and leave it to run itself, which it 

 will do, year in and year out, winter and summer alike, and so per- 

 fect will be found its work at all times as to result in the utmost 

 possibilities of production. 



To conform soils under our system, the ordinary laborer has 

 only to move along the hillside with plow, pick and spade, sink- 

 ing trenches three, four or five feet wide, and as many feet deep ; 

 of sufficient depth, at least, to drop the waters below the frost lines, 

 guided by no level other than the water moving along the bottom 



