86 Our Farming. 



only just came under the fence onto my land a little, furnished 

 water that soaked down through the soil towards O. What should 

 I do ? N could be drained south through my land, but at con- 

 siderable expense. My neighbor did not want to pay much of it. 

 I determined to fix it so it should do me no more harm, and at 

 small expense. I could not take water into regular land drain, as 

 N was too low. I decided to risk adding a little more water to 

 my through line OP. A two -inch drain was laid from O to N. 

 But N was full of water. How should I get it into drain without 

 carrying any sediment or rubbish with it, and arrange so it would 

 always keep pond N- down ? I did not want to go up through 

 and drain neighbor's swamp thoroughly that is, lay tile up 

 through it. This was a study for some time. I finally built a 

 dam of sods around a place in the fence corner, just on my land, 

 but in lower end of pond. Then I bailed out the water from in- 

 side of dam and put in a device of my own get-up that has always 

 given perfect satisfaction. It is a complete way of getting surface 

 water directly .into the end of a drain without a single drawback. 

 The accompanying figure will explain it to you, with a little help. 

 C is the line of tile coming up from O in a regular way, some 

 three feet deep. When I got to E I stopped laying tile and dug 

 a hole at B large enough to put a salt barrel in and deep enough 

 so the top of it was just exactly level with point E. Next I dug 

 the rest of ditch for tiles from E, grading down to H, in the centre 

 of barrel. A hole was cut in the barrel just large enough to let 

 the end of tile in. Then I filled the ditch and covered the fresh 

 soil with sods at F. 



Device for Letting Surface Water Into Tile Drain. 



A was about the bottom of water in the pond, D the surface 

 of it. A strainer was put over tile at H to keep frogs out. 

 Then I opened the temporary dam and let the water rush into the 

 barrel. You see the operation. As the water rose in B it backed 

 up the down grade tiles T. When the barrel was full it had, of 

 course, reached E, which was at the same level. Then as more 

 came, rising above top of barrel, it flowed over at E and on down 

 C regularly. The .great point of this is that no floating rubbish 

 can get into tiles, as that stays on surface of water, which is never 

 lower than top of barrel. When water gets down there, drain 

 stops running. No sediment or dirt can get in, as that sinks to 



