ger, to pay much more than the interest on the cost of the
improvement.

Yet, this advantage of draining, is, by no means, the only one which is
worthy of consideration. Since the object of cultivation is to produce
remunerative crops, of course, the larger and better the crops, the more
completely is the object attained;--and to this extent the greatest benefit
resulting from draining, lies in the increased yield. But there is another
advantage,--a material and moral advantage,--which is equally to be
considered.

Instances of the profit resulting from under-draining, (coupled, as it
almost always is, with improved cultivation,) are frequently published,
and it would be easy to fortify this chapter with hundreds of well
authenticated cases. It is, however, deemed sufficient to quote the
following, from an old number of one of the New York dailies:--

"Some years ago, the son of an English farmer came to the United
States, and let himself as a farm laborer, in New York State, on
the following conditions: Commencing work at the first of
September, he was to work ten hours a day for three years, and to
receive in payment a deed of a field containing twelve
acres--securing himself by an agreement, by which his employer was
put under bonds of $2,000 to fulfill his part of the contract;
also, during these three years, he was to have the control of the
field; to work it at his own expense, and to give his employer
one-half the proceeds. The field lay under the south side of a
hill, was of dark, heavy clay resting on a bluish-colored, solid
clay subsoil, and for many years previous, had not been known to
yield anything but a yellowish, hard, stunted vegetation.

"The farmer thought the young man was a simpleton, and that he,
himself, was most wise and fortunate; but the former, nothing
daunted by this opinion, which he was not unconscious that the
latter entertained of him, immediately hired a set of laborers,
and set them to work in the field trenching, as earnestly as it
was well possible for men to labor. In the morning and evening,
before and after having worked his ten hours, as per agreement, he
worked with them, and continued to work in this way until, about
the middle of the following November, he had finished the laying
of nearly 5,000 yards of good tile under-drains. He then had the
field plowed deep and thoroughly,