. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Drainage in New York. 245. a rather heavy phase of the type verging on clay loam. These types belong with the second drainage division made in the State. The third type of soil embraces the depressions between _the ridges which receive the natural drainage from the adjacent higher land along with the soil wash., In such places water loving vegetation throve and gave them the characteristics of marsh or swamp. But it was no
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Drainage in New York. 245. a rather heavy phase of the type verging on clay loam. These types belong with the second drainage division made in the State. The third type of soil embraces the depressions between _the ridges which receive the natural drainage from the adjacent higher land along with the soil wash., In such places water loving vegetation throve and gave them the characteristics of marsh or swamp. But it was not this very wet land that Air. Johnston first drained. He says, " Encouraged by a considerable in- crease of products de- rived from my farm from draining, I deter- mined to extend the sys- tem as rapidly as con- venience and circum- stance would permit. Upon examining, it ap- peared necessary to pos- sess a piece of ground belonging to a neighbor, that I might secure a good and sure outlet for the water from my up- land fields that required drainage in places. With this in view, I purchased ten and three-fifths acres of low land saturated with water. A part of this land, say about four acres, within from twelve to eighteen inches of ,the surface was a black vegetable mold lying on a stratum of clay of the same depth under which I found a hard bottom for my tiles not over three feet in depth. I felt persuaded that those ten acres were wet from my own upland as well as from my neighbor's wet land adjoining. The first ditch I dug was directly on a line betwixt the land I got from my neighbor and that ^ he still owns. This I found cut off all the water on that side. I then com- menced draining that ten and three-fifths acres; also about thirty acres of upland. A large proportion of the upland did not require draining. In the two pieces which made into one field containing about forty acres I laid rods of drain which have drained^the whole extent in a thorough manner. *
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