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repairs on his house as he deems wise to make this 

 year. He is now casting about, conscious that he has 

 not the means of doing everything at once, and yet 

 desirous of doing somethiag every year for the per- 

 manent improvement of his farm. We suppose he 

 has not made a fortune in the city to expend in fancy 

 farming, and has no rich father-in-law to back him up 

 if he gets into difficulty. The best he can do will be, 

 to do one thing at a time. He would like to attack 

 that ten-acre lot of boulders (428). But that would 

 not help him to the means for enlarging his manure- 

 heaps for another year. He therefore concludes, we 

 will suppose, to commence operations on the five-acre 

 swamp (429). He finds it surrounded with up-land 

 except at one end, where by digging a ditch three feet 

 deep, for 60 or 70 rods, the water might be conveyed 

 away. We will suppose the swamp to be of an oval 

 form, with an outlet at the southern extremity. 



425. Let him go down the outlet to a point where 

 the ditch may be commenced, having its bottom at 

 least four feet below the general level of the bog. If 

 more fall could be obtained, it would be better. I 

 suppose this bog to be afflicted with so mucb water, 

 that it would not do to trust to a covered drain. He 

 decides upon an open drain through the centre, three 

 feet deep and three w4de. If possible, let this drain 

 be straight. Supposing the whole length to be 6Q rods, 

 the cubic feet of mud to be thrown up would be 9,801, 

 making about 200 loads of fifty feet each. 



426. This should be done by the job. First let a 



