236 AGRICULTURE. 



gently when more rain came. These matters are worth 

 observation. 



Having appealed to the editor of the " Royal Agricultural 

 Journal" on one subject, we will now take the liberty of 

 appealing to its correspondents on another. We have no 

 doubt that some one or more of them are quite competent 

 to furnish information which would be of great value to 

 drainers. We want a table which will show at one glance 

 the water-passing power of pipes at various degrees of in- 

 clination something of the following sort : 



and so for every size of pipe commonly used up to the 

 sharpest fall, say four or five inches in a yard, which is 

 likely to occur in agricultural drainage. There is no use 

 in providing for extreme cases. The table might be so 

 arranged as to indicate at what respective inclinations the 

 various-sized pipes become equal to one another in water- 

 passing power. We shall feel an additional obligation, if 

 the gentleman who is so kind as to undertake this will 

 abstain from using any learned phrases, such as " sub- 

 tending angles," and so forth. We know nothing which is 

 usually determined more by a random guess than the size 

 of pipes in a receiving drain. To say so many acres to so 

 many inches is nothing, unless we know the inclination. 



We spare the admirers of the soft beauties of agricul- 

 tural England the pain which they would experience in 

 reading Mr. Pusey's denunciations of hedges and hedge- 

 row timber. We hardly know whether this ruthless re- 

 former would leave a hedge or a tree standing between 

 John of Groat's and the Land's End. They are doomed. 

 This is certainly a cheap improvement, for, when you have 

 eradicated them, you are quite sure that the hedge cannot 



