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half feet deep to receive tile up to ten inches in diameter, 

 the cost may be from fifteen cents to fifty cents a rod, 

 with an average of about thirty-five cents. The cost can 

 sometimes be reduced by the use of a power machine. 

 In stony and hardpan soil the cost may be very much 

 higher than these estimates. The deeper trench is rela- 

 tively the more expensive to construct. 



Laying the tile, filling the trench, and other miscel- 

 laneous operations for the smaller sizes of tile will cost 

 at least ten cents a rod. This makes a total cost for four- 

 inch tile of about 80 cents a rod, $5 a hundred feet, and 

 $260 a mile. 



Records are available of the cost of drainage on an 

 extensive area of cultivated farm land in northern Ohio,^ 

 where the soil is chieflv a medium clav loam, somewhat 

 stony, and where the d;pth was two to three and one-half 

 feet. Some of the work was done bv hand and some with 

 the aid of a traction ditching machine. A fairly low price 

 prevailed for tile, the size ranging from three to thirteen 

 inches. 



The results are as follows : — 



Area (in acres) ....... 



Number of rods of tile . . . . 



Cost of installation per rod . . . 

 Average cost of tile per rod . . . 

 Average number of rods to the acre 

 Average cost to the acre . . . , 



Cost op Installing Tilb 

 Drains 



Hand work 



40 



2,560 



S0.4489 



$0.2445 



48 



$33.28 



Machine work 



188 



8,835 



$0.3746 



$0.2445 



48 



^Goddard, L. H., and Tiffany, H. 0. The Cost of Tile 

 Drainage. Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta., Cire. 147. 1914. 



