, 1880-03-06

! lnstcned to lay dc tlc 'ndi Md
soI sG b,,t 'pEf nj m, 1i9.la 9 settled into tl,o
that at flowed from tho drains wins ~ pure aa
tnat t. from epring. The next year and for
htonr years the lay. crop was Eood, bnt far tho
5f1!eatstest q. tho tle.lrafned porton whero
aesnns H aPps s.v I 1T S0T " 1sSfS as n
tf9m tr shts Ming acres, and kept record Of tic
years M ago. = se;o. er sd ,per aero for the nine
eSeres eSres SIX acres then hsIng timothy iay and
!;l wilcat and three h. timothy, md, f,otwith-
standing the low price Of wheat md light
crop Of hay. from drought, tho casti receipts
iof ~ I'd, 1m,tll. Including, thd straw, were 500,
average rate for fye years past. @ Tits,
think. Is. pretty wall for land that would
not keep two cows on nine acres. In fact,
we Asscss0r's returns show that large pnr-
tlnn Of tho dairy. farms Of this sec.Iot do not
MAINTAIN more tllnn ono COW to every eight
or nlnc acres.
n tllls, my second experiment in tile
draining, only two or tl!rco acres were
dratiled out OF ninc, and this portlnn which
the most productive Of MI, anti tho drainage
Of this rendered possible tte cultivation Of
the rest; 50, In this case, tilo-drainaga docs
surely pay.
THE BANNER WHEAT crnr or ONO.
My third experience in drninlng was.on n
tta1ger scale and was let! 70 L By rapeated
ground. The field In which my house
stands Contains sixteen acres, Including
ho!'se, gartlen. etc. i is ti9e rolling land,
would sly needed andcrlraining. In is7o / Ind
eleven acres oi It ID potatocs, which were
simply ruined by excess Of wet. They died
Of consumption cai.setl by cold and wet feet.
tSo ess s!i Ill., Se Tep pns @ n9s bskea @ d G5
hard mass md thu potatoes c,ilfd only grow
on the back furrowa and under the young
ample tracs, where the hIghness Of the ground
and tho growth q thn trees kept a tlle Kronnd
total failure and several paftial ones preyi-
Of tic field: TLis. work was done II three
weeks III. November at1a three weeks more
iialt feet decp (threc wo,iId havc been bet-
teri, and tho drains tw0 rods apart. The
total cost S223 per acre. -The, Gr0nnd WIS dry
md hard when the ,ditchlng was finished,
and and T. p|;owed n; up II huge compact lu;,n1ps,
md which prevented the proper termination
MID growth Of the Hungarian grass. which
was sown: IL August tho crop Of 1lnngar..
Inn (noss!y "harn.grass y was moved al.i
TIE Tie la,,l plowedI for wheat: ! omitted to say
sMs so% saaS fo 'fts Scavy Ss'ss and s eaens
during the. summer made ,tlls drains dis
s fdee 5IsiM 5 M ag anG eG9Rstsy naws SeauS taS
for wheat. The yield of whcnt, ns most 3f
YOU know, WIS forty-slx md q hnlf bushels
per acre, machine measure, the. land being
measured carefully. The best three acres OF
sixty:one bushels per acIc. Hear. II mind
that had Just had two almost total failures
on this very tield-one Of potatoes and
one one ct hungarian grass; for, though .E;a
dralus ans 'ssr Was ona Ms1 tho cToy foNh condition @ u
the groiind, which the drains as, yet had not
time to change, was no doubt the cause of
tho failure. Here, then, 1t is clear that the
iirst wheat crop patd IN gToss mere tfn dn' tnan
Docs ttloirai1uJc payS"
GREAT. cIsor OF cIovEn ALSO.
Besides the cash received. for the wheat,
there was straw enough when tndicionaly
utilized to make as much manure as had
been put on tho field. There was also the re-
ne 2se! se ga gfom q Of bsae IN Sreha s Sf
benefited by the draintng., There was tho
flno cAtch Of clover, which has a1rendy. this
year furnished two heavy crops, and bids
falr 70 need cutting third time before vim "
eleven ncres will winter Twenty cows well,
unless they nro to bo MIXED through tho
winter, In which caso they vii! need shorts
Or meal in addition. feel Just as sure that
set on this field rs do TINT two and two
make four. So sure am l tllnt ,T1LE-DRA1N-
AaE PAYS that have already, since the fore
go!nE expt5l,naen yearly c9mFpteted The
of e s eefe5e as
lot, twenty-five acres Of which / hope to have
done before the 1st OF january, 1850.
A TOUGH jon COMMENCED,
Let mo give bit o.. history OF this field.
Tho twenty-five ncrcS l nm about draining
twenty-five months. ago was the ,ronghcst
n s1e t woG eaT[fR aRpe tsd % me- two 90 doa2 RSi
w1a psstrs o at fnss pfeseht prices of milk. Two
years ago next October l commenced
"tackl'nE" tj'is pasture, T., flrst
teen-acre meadow and a forty-acre field; cut
and grubbctl about 100 trees that were stand
Ing scattered over It, as they 40 over most
dairy .paat,lrcs; removed about 800 loads 9f
I'd tSt s"hes tGcm ths,t te sze o. 9nes 5
field. The next year (1s7s) had three acres
Of 1t in oats, three acres In potat9ss, and
nn,eteen nsres IN llunGar!an grasSs The cats
bushels Of wheat per acre. Tie Hungarian
were ,lcvcr dug... Ti,oy stood in tho mud up
to their knecB all July anu phrt q! August
and ns my Irishmnn said, ain, tho f0orst
plnce they nll rotted intlrety. and In the next
plnce they never grew at al at al" The
surface OF the land was rolling, with sui.
fctent full, but every rain We had soaked
The ground Into mud before the surplus water
run oil. THIS was tho fourth or fifth failure
at MY potato crop within ten years from
tho same cause, and determined never to
plant again on tindtained land. 4 part OF the
Hungarian grass fallad also fol the san,e
rcaspn, and SO made up my mimi to tile
drnin tho whole field. about dyU ncrcs arc
already done, Including 2 eat-s'wamp Ct nnlt
wild grass, and where the Hungarian totally
fniled last year. On eight acres Of this field.
Including the drained portion. pitt the years
manure from, twenty c0ws and four llorsrs,
ard soWed 1t again this year to Hungarian
grass, and It would have done y0ir eyes
good To have Been It the past month. 1t
was, with q. single exception, tho beaylest
crop that I ever saw, aud, tho drained
catrswan,p was tho heaviest part of 1t.
rho stalks averaged ~ feet high, some be-
ins 4 feet by measure, and stood ab0nt MS
thick as tho Inv allows. measured, cUt,
md weighed yard SQUARE, and It weighed
just eight pounds green. or at the rato Of l0J3S$
|, tons per mere OF green forage fnr s0ilIng, and
when very thoroughly drlet! It weighed