Drairiing Around Wet Hollows

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 6

Drairiing Around Wet Hollows

'Wc'jiavo described afe ,difiorent times various' methods that have bden adopted for draining spots in a field that are sometimes called "pot holes," or "caoswampb."' Those avo .small* hollows from which there is no natural tall, in which the water lodges . and forms bogholea which " cause much inconvenience and waste of time in ploughing a field from the necessity to York round such places. Also *very often a {rood sized ■ piece of land is renderedu&eless for cultivation, which if it could be chained would yield • well as being especially rich. We here illustrate a pood plan of literally circumventing the difficulties of such "pot holes," by keeping them dry by preventing the water from surface draining getting info them. A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer adoptsthis plan and-he writes : — "I have had some experience in draining, land, and can get around ' pofe holes ' (sharp depressions in>the midst of areas more or less cvon) without the use of an engine and pump. I never go through these but go round them with the tilo so that no watei gets into the pond, only,that whicli comes from the clouds. I send diagram (see ,cut). -iTn ;pei>ons that have.no knowledge of, using tiles I would S*ay for this use large tiles. I never use 3inch, nothing smaller than 4-inch. An 8-

Managing Pot Holes in Uindkrduaining inch tile With proper fall and well 'put in will carry all the water that falls on 40 acres. You can put in as many bian^hes as you please and the 8-inch will carry pIY the wat&r. I never made any money until I drained lny land."