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deal of handling of the stone made necessary in collecting them 

 and selecting the smaller ones for the water course, and the slow 

 care necessary in placing and covering these, required extra time 

 the value was far more than an offset for the cost of the tile. 



The general result of this extension tile draining has been to 

 bring under successful cultivation many acres that had never be- 

 fore been cultivated, and to so drain drowned areas of their su- 

 perfluous water that some of the best tillage land now on the 

 farm embraces tracts that previously could not be relied upon 

 for a crop oftener than one year in two. To sum up briefly the 

 whole matter — it brought into excellent tillage condition a farm 

 previously notoriously wet and cold. I close with a suggestion 

 to my brother farmers — don't expect too much from your under- 

 draining the first one or two years, it will take that time for 

 most of the water in the saturated earth to find routes to the 

 tile, and so complete the underground system of drainage. 



MANURES. 



The papers tell a very readable anecdote of an indulgent old 

 father, who prided himself on always having his commands 

 obeyed. When wearied with ordering bis careless son to exe- 

 cute his commands, he was accustomed to wind up with "well, 

 then I will go do it myself, for I will be obeyed !" So the chair- 

 man of this Committee having waited with all patience in vain 

 for some member of the Society ( and where can be found a 

 more intelligent body ? ) to hand in the results of his experiments 

 on manures, and having looked to the right and to the left for a 

 "report," rather than have his department dishonored and so re- 

 spectable a subject go by default, has resolved to "do it himself" 



