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ordinary farmer to follow witli a limited income derived from 

 his farm alone, then we think it would partake too much of 

 the character of much of the o:ilt-edo:ed farmino; which we 

 sometimes see — beautiful to look upon, with the nice faced 

 walls, the fancy breeds of cows, horses, pigs, and poultry, the 

 nicely shaven lawns, etc. We once heard of one Avho upon 

 inviting his friends to take some refreshments, set on the side- 

 board some high cost brandy, and milk of Jersey cows, and in- 

 vited them to help themselves to that which they liked, as the 

 cost in both cases was the same. But Mr. Appleton's case 

 stands on no such foundation. Here is really an example 

 worthy of imitation by the men of small means, to say noth- 

 ing of the improvement in the appearance of his place, lying 

 as the under-drained land did in front of his residence. 



The foundation of all the improvement in this, as well as of 

 another larger tract of meadow upon which Mr. Appleton has 

 commenced operations, is a large open ditch passing near this 

 lot and into Avhich the main drain has its outlet, and emptying 

 into Ipswich lliver, some half mile distant. But as this ditch 

 existed before, we did not think it worth while to make any 

 account of its expense in the drainage of the lot. 



We think Mr. Appleton is singularly fortunate in having 

 for his farmer a practical engineer, who not only laid out the 

 work and made the plan of the lot, but also adjusted all the 

 tile in the drains. This lot was not a muck bed, but a basin 

 kept wet bv springs, which had their origin at some low level, 

 as no less than eight Avere cut through in making the drain. 

 The lot, as will be seen by the plan presented, is a long and 

 narrow one, being 1815 feet in length, and requiring the main 

 drain to be 2000 feet in length to get an outlet. 



The lot contains thirteen acres, one rood and eleven rods. 

 About one acre is taken up hj a road way, leaving twelve 

 acres to be operated upon. The soil was a sand}^ loam on one 

 side, a pretty hard gravel on the other, with some slight ele- 

 vations marked " Hills'' in the plan, with some decomposing 



