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at a rate which made work easier on the last 

 laterals because of the drainage afforded by 

 the first. 



Benefits. One interesting result is that 

 the seepage water in the gravel near the 

 northeast corner is so intercepted and cut off 

 that the ridge extending southwestward is 

 no longer wet. This strip was left untiled 

 as an experiment, and it is not probable that 

 it will ever have to be tiled. 



Another noteworthy result is that the raw 

 peat in the north central part of the area has, 

 by thorough drainage and the use of ferti- 

 lizer, been made to produce its share of the 

 2,760 bushels of shelled corn that the 35 

 acres produced in 1911. Fourteen hundred 

 bushels of this corn were sold for seed at 

 $2.25 a bushel. The owner of this land is 

 so well pleased with the results of his ven- 

 ture that he has bought 40 acres more of the 

 same kind of land and is draining it. 



Another area was called "good pasture 

 land/' but it was so wet that it had never 

 been plowed. The tramping of cattle had 

 made it rough. The muck was about a foot 

 deep and lay on a blue clay containing 

 streaks of sand. Areas like this are not as 



