. The Utah Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region. n drainage is comprehensive,m do not seek the low lands in afield and by placing a tile drain alongthe swale, consider the farm drained;on the other hand, we treat the farmall alike; we drain the land that isapparently free from ground waterwith just a3 much attention to linesand distances as we do the tuleswales. We have one block of land in onesystem which comprizes two wholesections, each a mile square; some ofIt was water-logged; some of it haobeen farmed and abandoned; someof it had never been water-logged and was pr
. The Utah Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region. n drainage is comprehensive,m do not seek the low lands in afield and by placing a tile drain alongthe swale, consider the farm drained;on the other hand, we treat the farmall alike; we drain the land that isapparently free from ground waterwith just a3 much attention to linesand distances as we do the tuleswales. We have one block of land in onesystem which comprizes two wholesections, each a mile square; some ofIt was water-logged; some of it haobeen farmed and abandoned; someof it had never been water-logged and was producing good crops; and someof it was in sage brush that had beenkilled by water; and some of it wasin sage brush as fresh and unharmedas that on the bench lands that wasadmittedly out of the irrigated zoneentirely—yet all was treated just tin less fertile valley lands, he would nothesitate to mortgage his life insur-ance, if necessary, to tile drain thefarm as soon as possible, and wouldregard it as the best investment hecould make. Now, when a man makes a proposi-. same, the tile lines were laid withthe same regularity throughout- thetract (430 to 450 feet apart), and tothis method we owe very many of thevaluable lessons taught in aeriation,movement of capillary moisture,elimination of poisonous soil gases,etc. So ihimerous and varied have theselessons occurred in our practice thatthose of us who are farming over tiledrains would not think of operatingan irrigated farm without draining it,and many of us would also tile drainthe dry farm wheat and barley landas well. The writer is willing to saythat if he owned the best dry farm onour rich and fertile bench lands orthe poorest dry farm in the lower and tion, or advances a theory, or investshis own or his employers money, heshould be able to fortify his positionwith at least one good and substantialreason. Below are submitted twelvereasons for tile drainging farm lands,and to assert here that any twoof them will make
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