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tree which will permit one horse to walk on each side of the 

 ditch. The soil and waste banks are plowed toward and 

 into the ditch until it is entirely filled. It is best that one 

 man drive the team while another hold the plow. Three 

 horses may be used upon a twelve-foot evener, two horses 

 hitched to one end and one to the other. In this case the 

 plow is attached four feet from the end to which the team is 

 hitched. The plow is not well adapted for filling ditches dug 

 in meadow land. 



Filling with a V Drag. A V drag is a useful and quick 

 means of filling ditches. The wings of the drag should be 

 wide enough in front to reach from the outside of one bank 

 of excavated earth to the outside of the other, and should be 

 brought to within a few feet of each other at the rear. 



Filling with Road Machines. A scraping road grader may 

 also be used to fill tile ditches. The blade may be set at such 

 an angle that the waste bank is scraped over into the ditch. 

 Like the road drag, the road machine will do good work if the 

 ground is not too wet. 



Another common method is to fill the ditch with a slip 



Fig. 62. Filling the ditch with a road grader. 



