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the rear of the house, there being no springs on this part of the 

 place. Nobody can look down into your trenches where open, and 

 see the long stretches of spring water in them as I did, and not 

 discover that you save all the water which falls upon the hillside, 

 using what is needed for the growing crop and the remainder, by 

 far the greater portion, running off in purity. Though before my 

 visit of yesterday, I was convinced your system was a success, I 

 left your place prepared to say what I now do. 



" Your discovery has no equal, nor do I believe anything will 

 hereafter be discovered so important to the health and prosperity 



of the people. 



WILLIAM POOLER. 



Mr. Pooler's statement is one in accord with the testimony of 

 everyone who has looked over our place, and yet his evidence is 

 most convincing from the fact that he personally tried the experi- 

 ment of making farming an object on the land we now possess, 

 and though doing his utmost at a time when the demand for farm 

 products in home markets exceeded the supply, failed to make 

 farming a success, owing to the paucity and poverty of the pro- 

 ducing soil. 



Let us now, in turn, post the books : 



We have grown the present year Early Hose potatoes without 

 rot, larger, finer and better than any we have ever seen in our 

 entire life, at the rate, at least, of twelve hundred bushels to the acre. 



We have grown strawberries of extraordinary size and flavor at 

 the rate of three to four hundred bushels per acre. 



We have grown raspberries five hundred bushels per acre. 



We have become convinced, from experiments made already, 

 that next year we will be enabled to grow blackberries exceeding 

 in quantity to the acre the growth of our raspberries. 



We have grown a few clusters of grapes on newly set vines to 



