£85 [Senate 



Let every farmer do his utmost for five years in succession, and I 

 will vouch for the fulfilment of his wishes. 



The third point of interest, and one too, which is only applicable 

 to wealthy farmers, regards the right destination of their surplus 

 funds. 



These generally have been used in speculation, but had they been 

 devoted to the improvement of their stock and farms, it would have 

 added to the agricultural wealth of this county, to the enjoyment of 

 the owner, and would have given an impetus to agricultural im- 

 provements, the beneficial results of which time could only estimate. 

 Let every farmer follow farming instead of money making. Some 

 pinch their farms, (like the miser his sixpence,) till it groans for the 

 want of enriching. Until we see changes in the particulars above 

 enumerated, as well as in others, we need not expect to see those 

 improvements in agriculture which all admit are so desirable. 



IRRIGATION AND DRAINING. 



BY HOLKHAM. 



There are few more interesting subjects of inquiry than the chan- 

 ges that have taken place and are yet in progress upon the suriace of 

 the globe we inhabit, in order to fit it for the residence of man; the 

 geologist, the moralist, the philosopher, the christian, are alike inte- 

 rested in discovering the train of mutually dependant causes, by 

 which it was made to assume its present condition, and to prepare it 

 for its higher order of denizens. But interesting as these specula- 

 tive inquiries undoubtedly are, they give place among the practical 

 and utilitarian considerations by which we are surrounded, to the 

 consideration of the means by which men are now to sustain them- 

 selves, and provide for their wants; and although nothing is more 

 discouraging to the speculative philosopher — the man who loves the 

 truth exclusively for its own sake, than the inquiry '' cui bono" to what 

 practical good do your researches tend; still his mind has to yield to 

 the reflections that are urged upon him by the immediate anti press- 

 ing necessities of the thousands of beings whose first object is to live. 

 He should, however, reflect that he is incapable of taking in the whole 

 compass of nature; and that although he may not see it, there may 

 possibly be more value in the act of an ignorant and stupid clown, 

 than in many of his sublime and elevated inquiries. To provide for 

 our wants is the first object of reason, of our instinctive faculties; and 

 while we glory in the advantages of scientific agriculture, and rejoice 

 that chemistry is developing the combinations that promote vegetation ; 

 that mineralogy is giving us the materials to constitute productive soils; 

 that physiology is displaying the wonders of organic creations; and that 

 the whole circle of the sciences is revolving for our benefit; we must 



