The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-18
RESULTS WITH TILE DRAINS.
How Expense May Be Saved in the
Digging and Grading

Our drainage operations for 1911 be-
gan April IL, with force of Ii men,
writed II f. Cox to the editors of Tie
Country Gentlaman The fields have
been 20 wet and soft this April that
tie machine cannot yet be used to adj
vantage; so the work is going on by
hand labor. Three carloads of tiles
were drawn TO the farms during the
winter, so there win be no delay I he
drains are laid as soon as the digging
and grading is done, becaue if left even
short time when the ground is so
saturated with water, they often slide
in, causing double work, and even then
the job is not as well done One good,
deep fllrrow il opened with a pillow.
This dspenses with using a line and
reduces the expense Of digging. Con-
Meeting with drains that have been
installed a number of years find
these are working clear and steady.
| noticed the flow of water from one
outlet did not run a steady stream, but
pulsated | had never noticed a drain
acting in this way before, and do not
now know the cause for it The sur
face of the ground where drainage has
been done is drying fast To-day the
lines of drains could be easily
traced by the dry strips, and one could
drive all over such field and trot
right along while on those fields and
parts of fields that had not yet been
drained, it was not safe to drive at ALL
We always drain the wettest parts
first The transformation in these wet
i AL -
in appearance, earliness, ease of work
ing and in crop results. that the sub
ject of farm drainage should be kept
prominently before the cultivators of
the soil
The delay in getting at this most inn
portant work is often caused by lack
OF means and also of time; but ii we
will stop and consider moment we
shall see that we are, in doing the
work only using the time and money
that are generally wasted in attempt
ing to work, land late and when it is
unfit, at an unnecessary expense of
wear sand tear on implements and
teams wasting good seed and getting
poor returns when it would be econ
omy to omit the cropping of that field
one year. puTF0N the InoNeN II Neces-
sary, with the positive assurance that
the increased crop returns plus the
lessened expense of preparation for the
crop, will return the whole amount in
two years at the longest and We have
one field that gave dollar returns the
first year to double the expense of the
drainage. This expense stops at the
completion cs the drainage, but the
benefits continue and increase,
| have yet to see a piece of land
which has lain waste and neglected be-
cause of its wet condition that did not
prove wonderfully productive after
proper drainage. Many hundreds Of
acres OF land in this country are giving
mesger returns 20 the tenant or owner.
as the case may be, when they could by
proper management be easily made the
most productive, for the means TO do
the work are right there in the soil. A
small farm in this township had been
held in the same family for a long
term of years The whole acreage need
Ell drainage. the fat part by the swamp
especially. The general appearance Of
the place. buildings and the fences IN
dicated what the returns from he t4rr,
had been This property changed own
ers, and was given charge Of the
drainage work The soil was good loan,
with . porous subs0il. IhArs ~az snaa-