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and strawberries—to strike much deeper into the 
soil, and feed at a greater depth. In this way many 
good things go together — drainage, irrigation, and 
an increase in our ability to use natural resources. 
I find the record of a twenty-acre field, which usu- 
ally yielded twenty-five bushels of corn per acre, 
but after thorough drainage yielded sixty bushels 
of corn per acre — and paid, in a single year, the 
entire cost of tile-drainage. ‘The outlet of the sys- 
tem of drainage should be into a larger drain, and 
thence, by a free outlet, into a large stream, or else- 
where, without doing damage. 
After a full consideration of the provisos I have 
named, thorough drainage and thorough cultiva- 
tion, there will still remain, even in our most humid 
states, a great loss in all sorts of farm crops, and es- 
pecially in berry gardens, so long as irrigation is 
not applied in a regular and scientific manner. 
We must make our country homes on a basis of an 
unfailing supply of water and entire deliverance 
from the chances of the seasons. 
Intensive farming is the growing of a large num- 
ber of crops in the place of one or two crops, and 
the application of scientific principles so as to se- 
cure the very best results. This involves a growing 
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