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elicited so much enthusiasm from the old gentleman 

 that he wrote a book on the subjedl in 1885, and a year 

 or two later the author had the pleasure of visiting 

 Father Cole and personally examining his work at 

 " The Home on the Hillside." His scheme was sub- 

 stantially that described under the preceding caption, 

 and while he put in more time and labor in the detail 

 and made his trenches in a more pretentious way, he 



FIG. 108 — FATHER COLE'S SYSTEM. 



always said that the extra work repaid him well. A 

 se(5tional view of Father Cole's works is given in 

 Fig. 108. 



In his book, '* The New Agriculture," the follow- 

 ing description appears: *' The land is a hillside, along 

 the eastern front of which runs a wayside gutter. 

 Parallel with this and from forty to fifty feet apart, 

 and across the land to its highest boundary, he caused 

 a series of trenches two and a half feet wide and four 

 and a half to five feet deep to be dug, and filled to 

 within eighteen inches of the surface with coarse large 

 stones, covered with Joose flat stones, for subterranean 

 water reservoirs ; these were conne(5led by numerous 

 shallow and smaller trenches partially filled with small 

 stones at about eighteen inches from the surface, de- 



