134 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



There are probably very few stones, if any, found in the soil, and 

 recourse to tile would become necessary. The rains, dews and 

 waters coming of melting snows should be dropped at the least 

 four feet deep, with overflow drains or tile and cappings about 

 eighteen inches beneath the surface. Such perforation of the tile 

 should be made as to most evenly and generally diffuse the waters, 

 and if all is done in a common sense way, so pure will these be 

 found, so uniform the temperature, that dwellers in the Cone- 

 wango Valley will every year see a green Christmas, and instead of 

 growing frogs, toads, lizards and the like, will be able to bring 

 out lakes crystal clear all along the track of their waters, alive 

 with bass, perch and pickerel, and not unlikely the mountain trout 

 of California, or possibly those of the brooks of Allegany, Catter- 

 augus and Chautauqua, of an half century ago. 



