TILE DEAIKAGE. 



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falls and the peacock screams ; therefore the barometer and 

 the peacock caused the rain ! 



EFFECTS OF TILE DRAINAGE UPON ORCHARD AND WHEAT. 



These are best shown from a part of this same field of 

 mine. As already stated, not very long after the orchard 

 was planted, about 13 acres of the total 15 were thoroughly 

 tiled and the other two not. Fig. 8, below, is a diagram 



PiAGJUM ^ PART f 



EXPLANATIONS: =-=^-== BOUNDARY LINES, 



~ MAIM TILE DRAINS; 



S/CAMERA . DIRECTION F EXPOSURE 

 (ORIGINAL TREt, 21' '"YKS OLDk o. DEAD T 



ORCHARD. r6 



LATERAL TILE I 



SHOWS DIRECTION F SLOPE, OR FALL, 



, RE-SFT WITHIN 16 YEARS. 



showing the exact drainage system of about 6| acres of the 

 orchard, including the two acres, or a little more, not thor- 

 oughly tiled. The whole plat includes the lowest and most 

 rolling or sloping part of the orchard, and the part not tiled is 

 the most rolling, even of this part, and therefore was left, be- 



