672 



DAIRYING. 



Fig. 828.— Horse-rake. 



urgently as it did a decade or fwo ago ; for within; the past few 

 years there has been manifest a vast improvement in drainage 

 in every part of the country. The drainage system of the State 

 of New York is most admirable, and other Eastern States are npt 

 far behind. In the Western States the systematic drainage of land has 

 immensely enhanced its average value, and incalculably enriched it 

 for pasturage. The meadows of the Western Reserve^ in Ohio, ren- 



Fig. 839.— Hay-loader. 



