A Quiet Nook 



Results Have Been Remarkable. 



Even when the soil is of a peaty nature, the results have 

 been remarkable. Owing to the fact that the surface slopes 

 with very few exceptions of the swamp areas of the state are 

 very favorable for cheap and effectual drainage, the water 

 from the lakes and swamps keep up a continual percolation 

 working down to lower levels. The result of this is that the 

 peat seldom gets dry enough to burn. This percolation is 

 responsible for giving the soil musk .and peaty soils a suffi- 

 cient content of lime for all kinds of plant growth. 



On some of the swamp areas of Northern Minnesota, there 

 is a surface slope as much as 10 feet to the mile sometimes. 

 A slope of three to four feet is said by the drainage engineers 

 to be quite common. 



A Conspicuous Example. 



The Hartley farm at Island, Minn., is, as has been stated, 

 one. of the conspicuous examples of effectual draining. It 

 was veritably carved out of the great Floodwood swamp. 

 It cost about two dollars per acre to drain this land. The 



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