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tice, I concluded to adopt it. Not having sufficient team 

 force to accomplish the work, the deficiency Avas supplied 

 by exchanging work with a neighboring farmer. The 

 subject of drain nge Avas also considered, and though I ar- 

 rived at the conclusion that it was desirable, and would 

 prove a .paying investment, my means required that it 

 should be deferred to a future time. The neighborhood 

 did not afford a single sub-soil plow, nor could one be 

 procured at the village. I was therefore obliged to have 

 one freighted from the city. 



The work of sub-soiling was accomplished with a satis- 

 factory degree of rapidity. Neighbor Williams took the 

 lead with a strong yoke of oxen and heavy plow, turning 

 a narrow furrow of about ten inches in depth. He was 

 an expert plowman, and the straight furrows which he 

 made were quite in accordance with my notions. I fol- 

 lowed with the sub-soiler, stirring the soil at the bottom 

 of the furroAV to the depth of six inches. Within a week 

 the labor of sub-soiling was accomplished. The piece was 

 afterwards dragged and cross-dragged, reducing the sur- 

 face to a fine tilth. The land being thus prepared, I next 

 staked it out for the trees, thirty-three feet in each direc- 

 tion. The utmost pains was taken to secure mathemati- 

 cal accuracy. 



In o]-der to secure the planting of the trees in their 

 right places, a method was adopted which has been long 

 in vogue. In a board ten feet long, a notch was cut in the 



