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How might he proceed ? 425. If he hire this work, how should 

 it be done ? 426. Why by the job ? 426. How could he and 

 tlie men who should undertake it ascertain what would be a fair 

 remuneration? 426. • 



How long would the mud thrown up improve in quality by 

 lying? 427. How long at least should it lie? 427. Would it be 

 too heavy to remove when first thrown up ? It would. 



What further is said of the work to be done on this swamp ? 



427. What three modes of filling covered drains are mentioned ? 



428. There would be much labor in reclaiming five acres of such 

 land ; would it probably pay ? 428. 



What is said of brush-drains ? 429. . Of stone-drains ? 429. Of 

 tile-drains ? 429. What caution is requisite, that, in laying tile- 

 drains, the ends of the tiles do not get slipped aside from each 

 other and filled up ? 429. 



What is said of draining lands that are not considered swampy ? 

 430. What name is given to the regular draining of lands, with 

 covered drains, at equal distances from each other? 430, at the 

 end. 



If, another season, our farmer should have time and means to 

 attack that ten-acre lot^ how might he lay out and prosecute the 

 work? 431 and 432. 



The labor of reclaiming and amending lands could hardly " pay" 

 in a new country, and especially if far from market; will you 

 state some reasons for believing it to be a paying business in the 

 Atlantic States, where the produce is near great markets, and 

 where it g<jnerally brings a good price? 433. 



What would you say of putting clay on sandy soils, if the c'ay 

 lies very near ? 434. And what would you say of the prospect 

 of remuneration, provided the land is in the vicinity of a good 

 market? 434. 



Which do you think is best paid for his labor, the man who , 

 spoils a good farm, or the man who mends a poor one ? 434. 



If, of two adjacent soils, one was too sandy, and the other too 

 clayey, how would you amend them both ? 435. Suppose a peaty 

 and a clayey soil to he side by side, would the same course be 

 advisable ? It would. If a peaty and a sandy soil were very 

 near each other, could you apply the same remedy? I could. 



Ordinary soils weigh at about the rate of 1000 tons to the 

 acre, taking them ten inches deep, which is 100 tons for each inch 

 in depth ; would it be necessary, therefore, that soils, in order to 

 be mixed with paying results, should lie near each other ? It 

 would. 



(It may be well enough for you to recollect, that as 1000 tons 

 constitute the whole soil ten inches deep, 100 tons is ten per 

 cent, of the whole ; ten tons is one per cent. ; and one ton is 

 one-tenth of one per cent. ; so that for every ten loads put upon 



