IT. 



A CONVERT, AND A HERETIC. 



WE have read and a little of ten er than is pleas- 

 ant, of victories gained in the Field and lost in 

 the Cabinet. The civil war that has waged so 

 long between the partisans of the deep and of 

 the shallow drain presents an experience the con- 

 verse of this. Long after peace had been pro- 

 claimed upon paper and most of the printed 

 authorities had begun to pull together in favor 

 of the deep drain I say most, for even to this 

 day a parting shot is now and then heard for 

 the old system ; long after the shallow advocates 

 had written themselves round to the other side, 

 the battle was still waging fiercely out-of-doors. 

 Truly may the Draining-tile be said to have " fought 

 its way downward inch by inch." The benefit 

 derived even from a drain eighteen or twenty 

 inches deep under the furrow which was still 



