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as before described. These will remain effective 

 for ten or twelve years, and can be constructed 

 on leased land where the lessee is unwilling to 

 go to great expense. It would be better though 

 to make some arrangement with the landlord, 

 by which both could share the cost of thorough 

 and lasting work. 



But let no one say, because my land is leased, 

 or because I only bought to sell again in a few 

 years, it will not pay me to incur the expense of 

 drainage. My best argument on this point will 

 be to relate an incident told by Mr. Henderson 

 in his most excellent work, " Gardening for 

 Profit." He says: 



" Every operator in the soil concedes the im- 

 portance of drainage, yet it is really astonishing 

 to observe how men will work wet lands year 

 after year, wasting annually, by loss of crops, 

 twice the amount required to thoroughly drain. 

 A most industrious German in this vicinity cul 



