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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aprii. 



These opinions are now common, and are lead- 

 ing men to look with interest for something that 

 is effective, cheap and portable, whereby they can 

 secure the desirable results already mentioned at 

 a paying cost. 



So far, among us, we have only used the sole 

 tile, and those have been made in so few places, 

 that their transportation often costs more than 

 the tile themselves. We need some form of tile 

 to answer the purpose of draining, that will ena- 

 ble any farmer to make them himself, on any 

 farm where suitable clay can be found ; that is, 

 to make them in common moulds, similar to the 

 brick-maker's, or by some simple and cheap ma- 

 chinery which he can manage himself. 



moulds could be changed into tile 



moulds if they were as long as tiles are 



made. 



Fig. 1 represents the slide fitted up 



with cores, tongues and grooves, each 



equal to the number of tiles to be struck 



at once. 



Fig. 2 represents the mould fitted 



to receive the slide. 



Fig. 3 represents the two united, 



forming a tile mould complete, requir- 

 ing but the same motions to make tiles that it 

 does to make bricks. Those who mould bricks 

 by hand can mould these in the same way, from 

 the smallest aqueduct size, up to the size used for 

 street culverts, v/ithout any extra outlay except 

 for the moulds. The stock that will make two 



This desirable result seems to have been at- 

 tained in Rowe's Patent Drain Tile, which we 

 have figured on this page. 



A machine to make tiles a foot long is similar 

 in every respect to a common brick machine, and 

 will cost but a trifle more — say forty dollars, or 

 even less, including three sizes of moulds. The 

 manner of making the moulds will be best under- 

 stood by brick-makers by observing how brick 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 4. 

 common bricks will make one foot of 2^ or 3 

 inch tile of the oval, or most approved form — 

 large enough for sub-mains, and not objectionable 

 on account of size, for minora 

 — being the two sizes mostly 

 used by farmers. 



Fig. 4 represents a section 

 of drain laid, showing how the 

 tile break joints upon each 

 other, holding all in line and 

 affording two feet of extra 

 seam to every foot of drain, 

 allowing the joints to be 

 laid so close as to keep out 

 the dirt without danger of 

 excluding the water. 



We learn from the general agent, Mr. A. K. 

 GiLE, of Alfred, Me., that the different sizes of 

 this new tile can be afforded so low as to com- 

 pete with the prices of any tile yet introduced 

 among us. If this be so, the points gained will 

 be, — 



1. The locking of the tile together by means of 

 their seams, and thus preventing their being 

 moved after they are once laid. 



2. Their being made on any farm where 

 suitable clay is found. 



3. In burning or baking them without 

 the use of an oven, as they are to be 

 burned upon the sides or ends, as 

 common bricks are burned. 



4. The saving in transportation, — as in 

 many cases now, transportation costs 

 as much as the tiles themselves. It 



