Show the wall runs parallel with the beach irom the farm wharf and hotel hote to a t bluff luff where kiere the opposite side ot of the awamy ends the swamp formerly formed a semi circular inundated anu area on the se sei seimore hore side ot of the farm but row pow the entire area is reclaimed and lurnis furnishes hes the best so soil by long odds on tile the place last winter boats could be rowed at r rimes lines across the ground but this will never nefer occur again it costs about say sav enty dollars per acre to clear this land of 0 water much less than clearing raw and of timber costs there are two tv 0 o liuga huge cement gates along the wall one at either end for draining the water out these gates are both built of cement the gate aprons work automatically mati cally that is the water can go out to sea but it can never return from that source the land back from the swamp has considerable elevation fiord this there formerly was as there is now much water shed from rains the volume of the rainfall runs from the back hills into the swamp due to this fact the gates at least one ot of them must be kept in operation permanently to properly rain tile the water away feet ot of tour four inch and six inch tiling has been installed this empties into the larger conduits leading to tl dwater through the sea wall some six or seven thousand feet eel of sewer pipe also empties into the conduits A crop of oats nas the first thin thing raised alsed on the reclaimed salt marsh so 50 soggy was wan the soil that horses cout dot cot be used A citie pillar tractor solved the difficulty quicksand was struck ili ti one place but the hat flat feet of 0 the tractor refused to be submerged and the spot has since been remedied at greenbank they say it is as easy for the farmer to organize his own reclamation la lu mation service as it is tor for the government to tackle bigger projects all lie needs to do Is to remove his coat and commence to start to get ready to 0 begin and begin with a will that is bound io to carry him thru clearing swamps is not a civil engineers job any more than doctoring a headache calls for a graduate al D some farmers are better engineers than some fellows who get paid as such tice ice beats theory sometimes mono ro hooley in farm engineering |