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laid a foot deep, just inside the wall all around the cellar, 

 covered with coarse gravel, and running under the cellar 

 wall at one corner to a good outlet, and with a good fall. 

 Then a gravel or cement floor will give a sufficiently dry 

 cellar. A wet cellar under the living-rooms is a dangerous 

 thing to health, especially if rubbish or vegetables ever de- 

 cay there. The cellar should be thus drained first, and then 

 as much of the adjacent yard, garden, and farm as one's 

 means will permit. The pay will come in better health and 

 better crops, and the drainage will in time extend to other 

 farms and to the township and county if they need drainage. 

 Drainage, like charity, " begins at home." The streets of a 

 certain city are said to be marvelously clean because " every 

 man actually sweeps before his own door." 



CHAPTER III. 



Why do we Tile-drain Land? The Actual 

 Facts; Does Drainage Pay? 



The preceding chapter has given theory chiefly, supported 

 by a few facts. According to the theory there given, tile 

 drainage ought to bring good results and pay its way on soils 

 that need it, provided the drainage is done economically and 

 the land is properly managed after tiling. What are the 

 actual facts V Has it actually paid where it has been tried V 

 I believe that it has and does, arid will in future. As one 

 object of this little book, on the part both of its author and 

 its publisher, is to encourage and promote more successful 

 farming, and as we believe tile drainage is the very basis of 

 successful farming on clayey or low, swampy soils, we shall 

 take considerable pains in this chapter, both by photograph- 

 ic illustrations and by clear statement of facts, to make it 

 plain that tile drainage actually does pay, on soils that need it. 



