48 TILE DRAINAGE. 



so long, and because I have enlarged the field from adjacent 

 pasture land, and want it all alike, to start a regular rotation 

 by plats. 



EFFECTS OF TILE DRAINAGE ON BARN ROOM. 



Seventeen years ago last spring I built a bank barn out of 

 four old ones, 39x7:4 ft., with some additions. The hay runs 

 to the basement floor in 24x44 ft. of it, and it is quite roomy, 

 holding 100 tons of hay by cubic contents, though the eaves- 

 posts are only 14 feet above the top of the basement in 

 front, and 7 feet in the rear. When I built it, both my 

 neighbors and myself thought it was abundant, and more 

 too, for all the hay and grain I could raise on my little farm 

 of 126 acres, 26 of it so shaded by orchard and maple grove as 

 not to give full crops or pasture. But I have since sold 11 

 acres of my meadow and rotation land (leaving only 65 now 

 arable, including orchard). Fig. 15 shows how very much 

 too small ike barn already is for my crops. The barn is 

 crammed full from basement floor to ridge-pole ; gradually 

 filled, settled and refilled during four weeks of haying and 

 harvest, and there are (see Fig. 15) four large stacks outside, 

 two of grain and two of hay 75 large loads of hay and grain 

 outside, and 95 large loads inside, all from 65 acres of tile- 

 drained land ; for the plats in the engravings classed as 

 " not drained," and amounting in all to about 15 acres, are 

 now (August, 1891) nearly all tiled, the work being done last 

 winter and spring too late to have much effect .on the crops 

 this year, and hence fairly classed as "not drained " in the 

 contrasts. 



The effect of tile drainage on my bam room has been such 

 as is shown in Fig. 15. I must next spring, if possible, en- 

 large the barn to nearly twice its present capacity, by lifting 

 the roo/and not much increasing the ground size of the barn. 

 If I " pull down my barns and build greater " I trust it will 

 not be in the spirit of the man in the Scriptures, who was 

 called " a fool" because he proposed to " take his ease (loaf), 



