50 TILE DRAINAGE. 



eat, drink, and be merry," like the pig or the ox ; but in the 

 spirit of thankfulness that even we owners of clayey farms 

 have been given, in those farms, almost a mine of wealth, if 

 we only use the brains given us by Him who gave us such 

 clayey land ; if we use our brains, I say, and develop the 

 latent wealth of our farms by tile drainage, good tillage, ma- 

 nures, fertilizers, and clover. 



And I have pictured and described thus much of the ef- 

 fects of these five handmaidens of success, upon my own 

 farm, in hopes of persuading more of my brother-farmers on 

 such farms to take the first step toward real success, by 

 tiling each year some small portion, at least, of their farms. 



I may add that now, Aug. 10, 1891, the winter apples on the 

 tiled part of the orchard are -simply grand, hanging nearly as 

 full as they blossomed, for we sprayed the trees with London 

 purple to kill the codling moths and to prevent u wormy ap- 

 ples ; " and though we had the rainiest ten days of the season 

 just during the time of spraying, yet the spraying, as is evi- 

 dent now, did very much good. Fig. 16 gives a " specimen 

 tree " of Baldwins. The photograph was taken about Oct. 1 , 

 just before the apples were picked, after this paragraph was 

 first written. I give the figure as an incentive to owners of 

 clayey land, first to tile and then to plant at least a small 

 orchard. The apples do not show so clearly as I hoped ; 

 but when Baldwin limbs hang clear down to the ground, you 

 may know that they are very heavily loaded.* 



* The proof comes to me Nov. 14. The apples have been picked. This 

 tree, shown in the picture, yielded 15 bushels of beautiful Baldwins. 

 The tree is 17 years old. The whole orchard yielded over 1100 bushels, 

 and scarcely one-fourth of the trees bore. W. T. C. 



