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his team, the water can be ditched if not drained off. A good wide, or 
narrow ditch, as may be found requisite, will drain any adjacent road; 
and nothing, besides, is so great a comfort or so marks the country or its 
residents as good roads. To have a road about your house, or through 
your farm, in such a state as to compel you to seek out another in a wet 
season, is as slovenly as it is wasteful and expensive; when it is knov/n 
that any road can be made dry and pleasant to pass along by a drain, 
either open or covered. It is, I think, unnecessary except when the means 
are ample to make your farm road by covered drains, especially when it 
is only in rainy weather that such are needed. A neat ditch, which can be 
made first by a plow and then by a spade, will answer all the purposes; 
it will require, of course, to be occasionally spaded, but to an orderly 
farmer this is no trouble, or at any rate he will make none of it; having, 
as it has, for its object, neatness as well as comfort for all about him. 
Having indicated the evils of watery land ; having rendered proofs of 
the improvement of such, and having, I think, shown the utility of the 
improvement by drainage, I shall bring my remarks to a close by adding 
the recorded experience of one of your own countrymen ; and by further 
observing that the draining tiles made by machinery are made in two parts, 
equally constructed so as to make a complete pipe—a bottom with a half 
tube and flanges, and a top to match. I add a diagram of land requiring 
drainage, consisting of springs, high and wet low land ; draining that as 
I have described, will give any one suggestions enough how to place his 
drains. For the information of your readers, I may state that a good work¬ 
man will lay 500 or 600 rods per day. Before filling in, a little grass or 
hay may be advantageously laid over the tiles, to prevent earth from 
falling- through the joints or crevices of the tiles ; the surface earth is put 
in first on the tile or drain, being of more friable texture, and admitting 
the passage of rain or water more readily to it; and then fill in with sub¬ 
soil. It is well to avoid right angles in tributary drains ; running them 
into the main-drain less acutely, is a less check to the current than very 
acute intersections. A thousand tiles will lay about 75 rods; a cent a 
rod will be the utmost cost of laying, and digging the trench will not 
exceed £0 cents per rod. I am satisfied that freezing out would be pre¬ 
vented by draining. 
Mr. John Johnston, of Seneca Lake, Geneva, N. Y,, states his opinion 
and experience of draining as follows :—“ My farm is on the east side of 
