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than for only a few years. Experienced farmers very gener- 

 ally agree that drainage of wet land under cultivation is one 

 of the best investments that can be made and the lower the price 

 of crops the more important it is that their production be made 

 as economical as possible by that imiDrovement in the efficiency 

 of production which drainage makes j^ossible. 



Nearly a century ago John Johnston, he of Scottish birth, 

 laid crockery in his land near Geneva, New York, while his 

 neighbors scoffed. Those drains are still operating in good 

 form, and that farm is producing crops far above the average 

 for that section of the state. The missionary message from 

 those first tile laid in America is still sounding throug-li the 

 country and that message is calling more and more farmers to 

 improve the drainage of their land as a business proposition. 



