The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-07
Vernon Center
From Thursdays Daily.

QUO peterson is III sioux City on
business.
Warner Scott visited with re,a-
| tives at the Bates and Mead homes
the latter part of last week..
G. C. Cornish returned Saturday
noon from st. Paul where he was a
delegate to the Masonic grand lodge.
Miss Child, VINO teaches in the
Charles Brown district, spent the
week end with her parents in Beau
ford.
| Clifford Mead and Claude Herman
took in the moving picture show in
Amboy Monday evening, making the
trip on their motorcycles.
| Jesse Mobiles. with the help of a
dozen or more neighbors. filled his
large ice house the first of the week,
| hauling the ice from the Blue Earth
! river near the south bridge.
| Willie KeoniX returned last week
| from his visit to his mother in Min
neapolis. His sister accompanied him
home and will keep house for her
father and brother, who have rented
the Billie Long farm.
To Land Owners: Before another
crop-producing season arrives it
would be we'll to consider what con.
dition your land is in as regards
proper drainage. By that is meant
underground drainage, or circular
tile Systematically laid. Believing
as you should that every foot of
land on which you pay taxes should
net you some financial return, it
should follow that you should con-
dition every foot of that land to
guarantee some return. Much val
liable land goes to waste every year
because of its wet condition. You
take far too little interest in the
subject of its proper drainage as
lit relates to a permanent and lasting
improvement and the reason for that
lis evident Your official" paper,
the Farm Journal. seldom if ever
discusses it Certainly is not con-
tinually advising IT'D even though it
lis considered by many an improve
Iment that should precede all others.
Certainly every foot of your land
should bear it's share of the cost of
all improvements made upon it. AS
the best method of making low,
swampy and slough land useful under
ground drainage has been tried in
one form or another since as early
as the Roman period and still many
jof you doubt its practicability even
yet. Naturally therefore. you con.
slider alone the cost of installation.
Had you more thorough knowl.
edge of it, knowledge cleaned from
data gathered from those who tile
extensively, and data your Farm
Journal should furnish, you would
become convinced that it should be
your first and would prove your
most profitable :, experiment. To
briefly illustrate-1et US assume that
your swampy, slough land is, useless,
worthless, and it is. Then it, after
investing $40 in the tile drainage
such land will return you $50 per
acre in crops year after year, you
readily see that your investment is
returning you fifty per cent annu-
ally. Can you beat it? Having de-
cided to install system the first
and main thing to consider is an out
let, a main tile!fof sufficient size
to remove all the water from all the
land that leans towards it within a
period of twenty-four hours. To as
slst in choosing the required size a
good rule to follow in this part. OF
Minnesota where the annual rainfall
is about thirty inches, is known as
IGisbarne's rule. "a tile will drain
as many acres as the square of it's
diameter in inches" This rule will
prove effective on fall of from
one-half to 100 feet. If you will give
your proper drainage the considera.
ton that is due it you will drain
all your low lands and then every
acre will return crops ten per cent
or better annually on 5000 land
John Mcmahon, praeticalland drainer.