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pump, operated by a gasoline engine. This 

 same levee also serves as an insurance in an- 

 other way, since it protects us from the back- 

 ing up of the water from Tonawanda creek. 

 It should be stated that, as far as possible, 

 the ditches for the surface water have been 

 constructed with a levee on the interior side. 

 We thereby are protected from external 

 flooding as well as insured of the removal of 



A roller and mulcher or weeder used on the muck at 

 Albion, N. Y. Both drawn at the same time 



the rainfall and seepage which comes within 

 our muck area. 



"I may say that we have had no definite 

 outline for our work at least we did not 

 have at the start. Our open ditches are from 

 10 to 16 rods apart, and from 28 to 100 or 



