Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-06-13

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trees made up for this delinquency
by shooting up several feet.
Being now we'll satisfied that tide
land would "pay" tor dyking, if the
dykes were properly constructed at
first, l gave a contract tor enclosing
fifty acres, which was completed in
the Fall of 1867. The dyke was two
feet high, with a base Of six feet. But
the high tides of December, 1867,
the highest ever known on the
Sound, and which were three feet on
the land, smashed the dykes into pi
and burst open the sloughs, which
had been timbcred aud filled with
earth. The dyke around the house
was broken also, but this was re.
paired Immediately on subsiding of
the water, which did no injury to
the land. had the dyke around
this piece built four feet high, and
it has not since beer injured. Last
season the apples grew az we'll as
trees on upland. l drilled several
rows of rhubarb seed; the stems
were over one inch in diameter, and
the leaves attained the enormous
width of two feet the first season. |
experimental with onions also, an!
it was unanimously conceded that l
had the finest crop that ever had
been grown in tho country. These
grew on sod land, turned one spade
deep the same day the seed was sown.
Potatoes improve in size and quail
ty as the ground is worked, Last
year they were of ordinary size. |
am satisfied the ground was sraded
too deep for potatoes to do well the
first season. have been thus mi
mute, at the risk Of being tedious,
because could no other way give
SO correct sn idea of the capabilities
of the soil under consideration.
The dyke around the fifty acre lot
was repaired, widencd aud built four
feet in front, where the ground is
the highest, and by means of spirit
levol the same altitude was main
tanned all around; but part of the
dyke was not we'll packed, and last
Winters tides found their way
through in many places, thus soften
ing the earth until it finally broke in,
and the land has been flown nearly
all Winter during the high tides.
This shows the necessity of thor.
ough work, and is proof that bad
work in dyking, as in everything
else, is only money and labor ex-
pended in vain. Where the dyke
was well packed by tramping, it be.
came lard and as impcrvious To wa
ter as a wall cement. 1t is probable
that this piece Of work is an utter
failure, after having cost more than
double the sum that would be neccs-
sary TO build a wall that would turn
every drop Of wafer. l would re
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