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reading of all the books that have ever been written 

 on that subject, numerous and valuable as they 

 may be. I greatly prefer the round pipes to stones 

 or the horse-shoe tiles, as there is no channel of 

 water under them to wear away the earth, so as to 

 allow them to move from their original position, and 

 there is no possibility of their becoming filled up 

 with earth by mice or meadow moles ; they are also 

 much less likely to be broken by handling, or trans- 

 porting from place to place. My small or upper 

 drains are of two-inch pipes, and are enlarged be- 

 low, as before mentioned. I have purchased the 

 greater share of my tiles at Waterloo, (30 miles dis- 

 tant,) but the very large ones, or all sizes larger than 

 two-inch, I get to best advantage at Albany. As 

 many drains should terminate and pass out at one 

 outlet as possible, so as to require but little care to 

 see that they are unobstructed ; and this outlet 

 should be of wood or stone. I prefer wood, so that 

 the tiles will not be exposed to frost when wet, 

 which they will not withstand. One of these drains 

 takes away the water from my barn-cellar, and an- 

 other from the cellar under my house ; and a third 

 one, the waste water from about the well ; and to 

 furnish water for my stock in the fields, I have dug 

 a well six to eight feet deep, and found a durable 



