LAND DRAINAGE REMUNERATIVE. 87 



Besides the public and private loans spent 

 on land improvement, a much larger sum has 

 been laid out on the same object by landowners 

 from their own resources. 



It may be useful to consider in their order Land 



drainage 



the several objects of land-improvement, and one of the 



most 



the return they are capable of yielding under certainly 



remunera- 



suitable economical management. irrTrove- 



The first improvement, in all cases where it n 

 is required, is drainage, for until the land is 

 freed from stagnant water, and thus rendered 

 capable of yielding its fullest assistance to the 

 further efforts of the agriculturist, all other out- 

 lay is vain. There is never any difficulty in 

 deciding upon the expediency of drainage in 

 these islands, because wherever it is required, 

 and is judiciously executed, it at once becomes 

 remunerative. The under drainage of arable 

 and good grass-land, in a climate where drain- 

 age is advantageous, renders the land so much 

 warmer and more wholesome for plants and 

 animals, everything upon it becomes so much 

 more thrifty, and all operations so much more 



