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Show A Good Stone Drain. A Pennsylvania correspondent writing to The Rural New Yorker, says: "Tha following' method of making a drain may be useful to those who have soils like mine. 1 dig a ditch two and a half feet deep, at which depth 1 reach hard pat). Then in the center 1 dig a smaller one. both sides of which slope to a point aUmt six inches down, leaving a two inch shoulder on each side pf the top. The small ditch I cover with large stones, which rest on the shoulders on both sides, aud then Sll up with small stones to within one foot of the top. This plaa bava found very successful." |
