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for my tiles, not over three feet in depth. I felt persuaded that those ten 
acres were wet from my own upland as well as from my neighbor’s wet 
land adjoining. The first ditch I dug was directly on the line between 
the land I got of my neighbor and that he still owns; this I found cut 
off all the water on that side. I then commenced draining this 10 60-100 
acres, also about thirty acres of upland; a large proportion of the upland 
did not require draining. In the two pieces which, made into one field, 
contained about 40 acres, I had 1072 rods of drains, which have drained 
the whole in a thorough manner. The first year after completing the 
drains in this field, the whole, or nearly the whole, upland and all, was 
planted with corn ; the season was not favorable for that crop, yet the crop 
was fair, being full forty bushels of shelled corn to the acre. The low 
ground was excellent, where nothing but coarse grass had grown for 20 
years before. This year, 1851, I harvested from this field a crop of 
wheat, and a heavier crop I never saw stand up. Heretofore, many 
acres of wheat were lost on the uplands by freezing out, and none would 
grow on the low-lands—now there is no loss from that cause. Only two 
small patches, in all less than one quarter of an acre, was lodged; in 
fact, the whole field was so even it was difficult to pronounce any five 
acres worse than the rest. The wet ground got from my neighbor was 
the source of much curiosity to all around, as none would believe that 
wheat could be ripened on land so long saturated with water. It was 
watched, therefore, from the time it came above ground in the fall, until 
the last of it was harvested. The result was a crop of wheat, abundant 
in quantity and excellent in quality.” 
Mr. Berkley accompanies the foregoing valuable paper on drainage, with 
some remarks upon the value of Fairs and Markets, which are inserted below. 
A. C. I. 
Hext to the cultivation of good and nutritious grasses, and together 
with well drained lands, comes Fairs and Markets. To have a mart, or 
assemblage of the persons having to sell or buy, seems to be an instinc¬ 
tive principle of society; and although Fairs originated in a rude and 
primitive period of history, yet their continuance up to the present time 
has shown that they are not only required, but that experience has 
proved them necessary. On the Continent of Europe these periodical 
assemblages are common to every nation. The Fairs of Frankfort and 
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