Preparation of Soil by Drainage. 



digging a deep, wide ditch across the entire tract, in hopes of finding a 

 porous subsoil. Then I excavated great, deep holes, but came to a blue 

 clay that held water like rubber. The porous subsoil, 

 in which I knew the region abounded, and which makes 

 Cornwall exceptionally free from all 

 miasmatic troubles, eluded our spades 

 like hidden treasures. I eventually 

 found that I must ob- 

 f^-_ tain permission of a 



neighbor to carry a 

 drain across another 

 farm to the mountain 

 stream that empties 



The "Seth Boyden " Strawberry.. The Scene of Operations. 



into the Hudson at Cornwall Landing. The covered drain through the 

 adjoining place was deep and expensive, but the ditch across my land 



