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Show DRAINAGE ADDS TO PROFITS Increase of Yield From 25 to 100 Per Cent Physical Condition of Soil Improved. Lands that are too wet for the most profitable production of crops should be drained. Even uplands may often be drained with profit, especially hillsides hill-sides subject to erosion or inclined to be "spouty." Indeed, drainage is profitable wherever It is necessary to the fullest use of the land. It is not uncommon for lands too wet for cultivation to produce, when drained, On or 70 bushels of coin or oats to the acre. On much or the drained land the increase of yield is from 25 to 100 per cent, and by the increased yield and the decreased cost of cultivation the value of the land ia often doubled. Drainage improves the physical condition con-dition of the soil by making it inr porous and friable. Health conditions are also Impiovori by the drainage of swamps and stand Lng water. |