MR. URBAN AND A COUNTRY HOUSE 



city, is rapidly appreciating in value. In view 

 of this fact, he expends five hundred a year 

 in such improvements as will make the land 

 more desirable for suburban sites, and in five 

 years hence is confident of quadrupling his 

 money. 



Mr. Urban, who has wavered under the 

 Heaviside story, is as cheerfully intent upon 

 his farm as ever. 



The next witness is a philosopher and re- 

 former. He believes in drainage — deep drain- 

 age—in sub-soiling, in phosphates, in science, 

 in anything almost which is told him seriously. 

 The consequence is, he has bought a farm that 

 no one else would buy, and has put contra- 

 bands and refugees of various sorts at work 

 upon it, until he has expended more money 

 to the acre than was ever expended for 

 agricultural purposes in Orange County be- 

 fore. 



Mr. Creed is asked at what depth he is ac- 

 customed to plant his drains? 



Witness. "Four to five feet ; six feet I think 

 is better." 



Query. "And if you come upon rocks?" 



Witness. "1 blast them out." 



Query. "And you find a profit in this?" 



Witness. "It 's thorough." 



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