Benefits Of Tiling

On my clayey farm nearly nfty aoref are tile-drained thoroughly, with mains where needed, and with laterals thirty three feet apart and about thirty lnches deep. Each linear rod cf tiles drains two square rods of land; eighty rods drain an acre; one mile drains four acres, therefore about twelve miles of tiles are buried on my farm. It cost some money, not far from 8200 all told, tile and labor, including my own, for I laid nearly all the tilos with my own hands, dug about ono-third of the ditohes, cut nearly all the grooves in the bottom of the ditchcs tu "eoeive tho tiles a.s a snug fit, and made nearly all the joints where tho lateral join the mains. This is a food deal of money to put into drains on fifty acres of rather compact clayey land. It ought to show some benefit. The ftrst benefit was that it made tillage and rotation of crops p.wsiblo continuously. Sorao years you could get hoed crops, whe:it and clover without tiles, but not regularly. Some parts could never be plowed without fearful wash in hih water. The drainage made it possible toplow and till large square flelds instead of irregular knolls or triangular Datchfcs. Another benefit is that the "tiling" las made the crops uniformly better han on the partsnot tilod. Some times in the caso of wheat or potatoos the diflerence is one between a good erop and almost an entire failure. This year the differonce in the clover and timothy waï yery marked, both in quantity and quallty. I had about forty-six acres of clover and timothy, about half of iton tiled land and half not. The untiled land is more rolling, as rich naturally on the average, and being nearer the barn and road has had very much more man ure Ln the past than the tiled portions, probably fully twico as much on the average. And still my judgraent is tbat the tiled portions yielded this year from thirty to flfty per cent, moro hay per acrej certainly so if wo except from the untiled portions some three acres quite near the barn tbat for thirty years at least bas had much mere than its share of manure. Not only was the quantity greater, but the quality was better, more free from weeds, better headed and more uniformly good. This was quite noticeable in the clover and timothy 8eeded two years ago this spring, now mostly timothy. One strip or plat of about ten acres furthest fiom town was nearly all tiled, with a little over an acre not tiled. This part, to my certain knowledge, has had much the most manure for thirty years, but the hay from the tiled part I am sure Mr. Petley, my farm manager, will agree was worth about twice as much per acre as that from the untiled part, or as that from an untiled ten acres lying beyond the barn nearer town. On the tiled part the timothy was heavy and long, uniformly headed with very large heads. On the untiled part and on the other untiled ten acres the timothy was shcrt, beadi ■mail, and apparently more than half of it did not head. There was bad frost nd dry weather in May, and the untiled land did not seem to stand eithei so well as the tüed. The untiled parts were more rolling, too; left without til ing for that very reason. Still another advantage was manifest this year. The rains had been heaTj down to July 4. The untiled portlona were almost mud, the water standing in depressions. In many places the horses sank over their hoofs, and a wagoh with a ton of hay would sink in five Qï sixinches, and it was almost impossibta eren for a strong team to draw the halfloaded wagon tip grado with the haj loader working. But the tiled portions of the field were firm and solid; machines, wagons and horses did not sink In and the field was in fine oondition for plowing any day. On my tiled wheal field, too, the twine binder ran wlth perfect ease to the team, whereas untiled clayey fields were so soft that In some places twinc binders could not be Hsed.-