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DRAINAGE AND STONE WALLS 



How one Farmer Solved the Problem 



This is a story of one of the best 

 farms in Hampshire County — its develop- 

 ment and the present and future plans 

 of operation. Last month we told 

 something of the organization of this 

 same farm, Peter Hanifin's of Belcher- 

 town. This month we wish to tell how 

 he brought the farm to its present con- 

 dition and the influence of drainage on 

 his profits. 



In 1902 the present farm of 115 acres 

 was purchased and it wasn't long before 

 he found that to do more business on the 

 farm he had to do one of two things: 

 (1) clear more land, (2) drain the fields 

 which had been cleared. He chose the 

 latter course with some of the results 

 given below. 



Mr. Hanifin tells of one field of five 

 acres, the hay crop of which had to be 

 removed by hand, (consisting of some 

 grass, but more blueberries, cranberries, 

 and polypods — possibly four jags of poor 

 bog hay). Last year this field cut about 

 12 tons of good hay and this year it is 

 growing fine crops of cabbage, corn and 

 grass, and the work of planting and 

 hai-vesting the crop is done with horse 

 labor. 



The simple thing that changed this 

 field from one which grew swamp hay to 

 one that grew Number one hay, cabbage 

 and corn equally well and from one that 

 could be worked only late in the season 

 to one that could be gone onto any time, 

 was three lines of tile drain. The tile 

 probably cost him $40 and the work was 

 done by the regular farm labor during 

 slack seasons. 



There were two good demonstrations 

 on the farm this fall of what tile drain- 

 age will do for crops. In one of the fields 

 the drains failed to tap one of the wet 

 spots — the corn there was about knee 

 high and sickly yellow in appearance 

 while on both sides the crop stood higher 

 than your head with healthy dark green 

 foliage. In a second field where the 

 drainage work has not been completed 

 the effect of drainage on the grass grown 

 was shown very well — the rank growth 

 of ferns and sedges where not drained 

 compared with the fine growth of 

 timothy and clover where the drainage 

 has been completed. 



Now what has been the result of this 

 drainage work on Mr. Hanifin's farm 

 operations and farm profits? They are 

 largely the following: — 



1. The crops can be planted on time. 

 This means large yields and well matured 

 crops put on the market when the price 

 is right. 



2. other crops besides hay can be 

 grown on the land. 



.3. Fields can be made larger and of 

 a shape more easily worked thus decreas- 

 ing the amount of man and horse labor 

 ConcluJcd on page 6 



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