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Belmont Chronicle
Saint Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio
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Farmer Charles Meiks in Mercer Co., Pa., underdrained 8 acres of clay soil last summer using sandstone instead of tiles, yielding 43 bushels of wheat per acre this harvest—23-28 bushels more than neighbors' 15-20 bushels.
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A Trumbull Co., correspondent of the Ashtabula Sentinel, relates the following of a farmer in a neighboring county of Pennsylvania:
In Mercer Co., Pa., lives Mr. Charles Meiks, who owns a clay soil farm. On that farm, last summer, he underdrained about eight acres after this manner: The drains were dug parallel with each other, twenty seven feet apart, thirty inches deep, and about twelve inches wide. Being unable to procure drain tiles, they carted sand-stone to the trenches, broken to a proper size, and filled in about twelve inches, and wherever there was a low spot, they cut a cross drain. After it was finished, it was sowed to white wheat, and the average yield this harvest was forty-three bushels per acre, and in weighing, it overran one hundred and two pounds and a half per bushel. Other farmers in the neighborhood think they have a very good crop if they get twenty bushels per acre, while with many it does not exceed fifteen per acre. Thus you see there is a clear gain of twenty-three, if not of twenty-eight bushels per acre.
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Mercer Co., Pa.
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Last Summer
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average yield this harvest was forty-three bushels per acre, and in weighing, it overran one hundred and two pounds and a half per bushel. other farmers in the neighborhood think they have a very good crop if they get twenty bushels per acre, while with many it does not exceed fifteen per acre. thus you see there is a clear gain of twenty-three, if not of twenty-eight bushels per acre.
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In Mercer Co., Pa., lives Mr. Charles Meiks, who owns a clay soil farm. On that farm, last summer, he underdrained about eight acres after this manner: The drains were dug parallel with each other, twenty seven feet apart, thirty inches deep, and about twelve inches wide. Being unable to procure drain tiles, they carted sand-stone to the trenches, broken to a proper size, and filled in about twelve inches, and wherever there was a low spot, they cut a cross drain. After it was finished, it was sowed to white wheat.